Molecular Dynamics Simulations of Clathrate Hydrates on Specialised Hardware Platforms
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Simulation Methodology
3. Results and Discussion
No. of Molecules | No. of Nodes | CPU | CPU-GPU |
---|---|---|---|
39,788 | 1 | 0.0744 | |
39,788 | 2 | 0.104 | 0.0485 |
39,788 | 4 | 0.0545 | 0.0346 |
39,788 | 8 | 0.0294 | 0.0273 |
39,788 | 16 | 0.0212 | 0.0167 |
91,430 | 1 | 0.443 | 0.156 |
91,430 | 2 | 0.235 | 0.0898 |
91,430 | 4 | 0.127 | 0.0637 |
91,430 | 8 | 0.0699 | 0.0453 |
91,430 | 16 | 0.0405 | |
318,304 | 1 | 1.449 | |
318,304 | 2 | 0.755 | 0.283 |
318,304 | 4 | 0.400 | 0.162 |
318,304 | 8 | 0.217 | 0.105 |
318,304 | 16 | 0.120 | 0.0673 |
1,074,276 | 1 | 4.863 | |
1,074,276 | 2 | 2.471 | 0.869 |
1,074,276 | 4 | 1.305 | 0.524 |
1,074,276 | 8 | 0.675 | 0.275 |
1,074,276 | 16 | 0.379 | 0.158 |
4. Conclusions
Acknowledgements
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Chicago/Turabian StyleVarini, Nicola, Niall J. English, and Christian R. Trott. 2012. "Molecular Dynamics Simulations of Clathrate Hydrates on Specialised Hardware Platforms" Energies 5, no. 9: 3526-3533. https://doi.org/10.3390/en5093526