%0 Conference Paper %K biology computing %K design of experiments %K digital simulation %K distributed processing %K local area networks %K message passing %K molecular biophysics %K performance evaluation %K synchronisation %K workstation clusters %K CHARMM %K Ethernet %K PC clusters %K computational biology %K distributed molecular dynamics %K experimental design %K middleware %K molecular dynamics code %K performance optimization %K performance tuning %K synchronization %K Analytical models %K Biological system modeling %K Computational modeling %K Distributed computing %K Electrostatic analysis %K Grid computing %K Hardware %K Scalability %K Software performance %B Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium, Proceedings International (IPDPS 2002) %C Ft. Lauderdale, FL %D 2002 %G eng %I IEEE %M 7342321 %R 10.1109/IPDPS.2002.1015505 %T Performance characterization of a molecular dynamics code on PC clusters: Is there any easy parallelism in CHARMM? %1 0044 %8 April 2002 %@ 0-7695-1573-8