[gmx-users] Mailing list issue fixed

[David van der Spoel]

On Fri, 2004-04-30 at 10:39, Mu Yuguang (Dr) wrote:
> To what degree that you guys think, a well-developed, so-called,
> treecode algorithm for N-body problem can improve our MD simulation
> speeds ?
There is a paper by Petersen
@Article{Petersen95,
  author = 	 {H. G. Petersen},
  title = 	 {Accuracy and efficiency of the particle mesh {E}wald
method},
  journal = 	 BTjcp,
  year = 	 1995,
  volume =	 103,
  pages =	 {3668-3679}
}
where he compares these algorithms. IIRC the point where the tree code
(I assume you mean the fast multipole method) becomes more attractive is
at roughly 100,000 atoms. Now this number may or may not be very
accurate, but it is would be nice to try.

Meanwhile Erik and I are still working on optimizing the current code by
improving the parallellization.


-- 
David.
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