Coarse Graining and Acceleration of simulations with GPGPU

CoMe Seminar Series

DATE: Friday, June 22, 2012 13:30H

Simulation has become an essential tool for the modern scientific researcher. It's use has become ubiquitous in virtually every field for yielding insights, where experiments alone do not suffice. There are still limitations on what can be realistically simulated and in order to overcome these and access longer time scales and different length scales many there have been many innovations in the use of available hardware and simulation approaches. Through the use of some recent work on the self assembly of adsorbing diblock copolymers, we will explore how coarse graining is useful, and in some cases necessary in nano to micro scale simulation and how the cutting edge technology that is General purpose Programming on Graphical Processing Units (GPGPU) can allow us to access timescales that were previously impossible.