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In this paper, several examples of program tuning for vector and parallel machines and their efficiencies are studied. For the vector machine, we modify a Monte Carlo code to determine its practical maximum speed, and we obtain 100 times faster calculation than the RISC based machine. Furthermore, we try to parallelize an ab initio molecular dynamics calculation code, and measure the efficiency of a parallel machine.
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Mizuseki, H., Sahara, R., Li, ZQ., Ohno, K., Kawazoe, Y. (1998). Program Tuning for Large-Scale Simulations in Computational Materials Science. In: Kitagawa, H., Aihara, T., Kawazoe, Y. (eds) Mesoscopic Dynamics of Fracture. Advances in Materials Research, vol 1. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-35369-1_21
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