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Comments regarding Monte Carlo simulation of classical fluids on general purpose supercomputers

✍ Scribed by Sumnesh Gupta

Publisher: Elsevier Science
Year: 1988
Tongue: English
Weight: 265 KB
Volume: 50
Category: Article
ISSN: 0010-4655
DOI: 10.1016/0010-4655(88)90184-1

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✦ Synopsis

Comments are made in connection with a recent paper by Vogelsang and Hoheisel (Comput. Phys. Commun. 46 (1987) 209-216). A theoretical analysis of the computing requirements shows the usefulness of neighbor list or the cell list method in saving computing time for Monte Carlo simulations. This is demonstrated by sample runs on an IBM-3090 computer with vector facility. The possibility of displacing many particles simultaneously in Monte Carlo simulations is also discussed and this can be useful in parallel processing.