Falcon -- Toward Interactive Parallel Programs: The On-line Steering of a
Molecular Dynamics Application
The Falcon System is described in the paper
"Falcon -- Toward Interactive Parallel Programs: The On-line Steering of a
Molecular Dynamics Application" published in the Proceedings of the
Symposium on High-Performance Distributed Computing (HPDC-3 - August 1994).
A slightly different version of the paper is also available as Georgia
Institute of Technology Technical Report
GIT-CC-94-08 .
Caveat: This document contains figures which may overwhelm some
postscript printers, perhaps aborting the print job or at least taking
forever (~1 hour).
The paper itself can be retrieved by clicking
here.
Below are several figures which appear in the Tech Report. Some do not appear
in the final paper due to space concerns. All were necessarily reduced from
full-color screen dumps to gray-scale postscript for presentation in the
published documents. They appear here in their full color form.
- Initial particle decomposition (Figure 2 in the paper)
- A graphical representation of the initial partitioning of the alkane
system. The blue lines represent the boundaries between processor domains.
The red particles are the crysaline substrate and the yellow-white particles
are the alkanes.
- Load Balance View (does not appear in paper)
- A screen capture of the Falcon Load Balance View. This view represents
processing load at the initial decomposition.
- Final decomposition (does not appear in paper)
- A graphical representation of the initial partitioning of the alkane
system. The blue lines represent the boundaries between processor domains.
The red particles are the crysaline substrate and the yellow-white
particles are the alkanes.
- Thread lifetime view (Figure 4 in the
paper)
- An annotated Falcon Thread Lifetime View.
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