5.3 Supercomputing and Distributed Computing Infrastructures
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Fig. 5.8 The MIMD scheme
Fig. 5.9 A picture of three most popular parallel supercomputers of the 1990
However, in order to enhance the performances of the already mentioned electronic structure codes on these platforms, an in-depth significant reorganization of
the applications is needed. Thanks to the restructuring and/or the afresh design of new
codes (see for example Ref. [17]) modern platforms can, indeed, target performances
of the order of ExaFLOPS also in molecular science applications.
5.3.2 Networked Computing and Virtual Communities
A different evolution line of computing that has impacted significantly molecular
science studies is that of the proliferation of minicomputers and desk computers
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Fig. 5.8 The MIMD scheme
Fig. 5.9 A picture of three most popular parallel supercomputers of the 1990
However, in order to enhance the performances of the already mentioned electronic structure codes on these platforms, an in-depth significant reorganization of
the applications is needed. Thanks to the restructuring and/or the afresh design of new
codes (see for example Ref. [17]) modern platforms can, indeed, target performances
of the order of ExaFLOPS also in molecular science applications.
5.3.2 Networked Computing and Virtual Communities
A different evolution line of computing that has impacted significantly molecular
science studies is that of the proliferation of minicomputers and desk computers