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With the rapid increases in the speed of modern computers over the past few years, many people pose the question, “why bother with parallel computing?” For many researchers, the inherent problems of learning new computational techniques and of porting large computer codes, (or even re-writing them from scratch), far outweigh the benefits of parallelisation. Recently however such attitudes have begun to change. The production of parallel compilers, that can automatically parallelise many programs, have provided a painless route to parallelisation. In addition, the development of that allows purpose-written parallel programs to be ported across many different platforms has removed the problems of lack of portability that deterred many people from writing parallel applications.
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Wilson, M.R. (2000). Parallel Molecular Dynamics Techniques for the Simulation of Anisotropic Systems. In: Pasini, P., Zannoni, C. (eds) Advances in the Computer Simulatons of Liquid Crystals. NATO Science Series, vol 545. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-4225-0_13
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