|
|
 |
Scientific, Technical & HPC life sciences
| The expertise at IBM Research - Zurich in computational physics
and chemistry with applications in materials science and biochemistry is
recognized throughout the world. This activity involves diverse technical
steps: |
| • |
development of new algorithms, |
| • |
code optimization, particularly for massive parallel
computing, |
| • |
data analysis, |
| • |
selected applications aimed at unraveling the physics and chemistry of
the systems under investigation, |
| • |
virtual design of novel materials for advanced technologies, |
| • |
development of interfaces for Grid computing. |
|
Click to view animation |
| |
|
The basic computer code used for our calculations is CPMD*. The code
has been optimized for all IBM platforms, particularly Power4, power Linux
and Blue Gene/L (see parallel computing).
|
|
|
| *Car-Parrinello molecular dynamics,
© IBM Corp. 1990-2004 and MPI für Festkörperforschung,
Stuttgart, Germany, 1997-2001. |
|
|
|
|
|
| |
|
|
