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This project presents a parallel simulation environment for polymers, DNA and protein molecular chain simulations. This system is intended to be used by scientist to automatically parallelise computer simulations of complex polymers, DNA and protein molecules in order to study their behaviour and determine their microscopic structure. In this paper we describe the approach chosen to built this system: the graphical user interface (GUI), the virtual machine and the runtime system and dynamic load-balancing support.
This project is supported by Digital Equipment Corporation under grant IR009.
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Kechadi, M.T., Kiernan, P., Hegarty, D., Dawson, K. (1996). Parallel simulation environment for polymers, DNA and protein molecular chains. In: Liddell, H., Colbrook, A., Hertzberger, B., Sloot, P. (eds) High-Performance Computing and Networking. HPCN-Europe 1996. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1067. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-61142-8_572
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