Basics of molecular dynamics (MD) simulations and how they can be parallelized

This talk describes the basic concepts behind molecular dynamics (MD) simulations and how near-linear scaling on multiple processors can be achieved. Also, it describes how MD simulations were parallelized on the specialized architecture of the Playstation 3, which was released in Nov. 2006. This work was presented at the end of a 1-month-long course during the independent activities period (IAP) at MIT in Jan. 2007.