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Foil 7 Classes of Particle Problems

From Parallel Programming for Particle Dynamics Extra Foils Computational Science CPS615 -- Spring 2000 Semester. by Geoffrey C. Fox


If the range r is small (as in a crystal), the one gets numerical formulations and parallel computing considerations similar to those in Laplace example with local communication
  • We showed in Laplace module that efficiency increases as range of force increases
If r is infinite ( no cut-off for force) as in gravitational problem, one finds rather different issues which we will discuss in this module
There are several "non-particle" problems discussed later that reduce to long range force problem characterized by every entity interacting with every other entity
  • Characterized by a calculation where updating entity i involves all other entities j



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