147,000 Processors Used for Atom-by-Atom Simulation of Nanoscale Transistor
Comments Using 147,000 processors for 15 minutes from the Jaguar system (a Cray XT5) at the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility, “a simulation of electrical current moving through a futuristic electronic transistor has been modeled atom-by-atom in less than 15 minutes by Purdue University researchers.”
“Professor Klimeck and his colleague have demonstrated the unique transformational scientific opportunity that comes from scaling a science application to fully exploit the capabilities of petascale systems like the Cray XT5 at the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility,” Kothe says.
Freely available nanoelectrics software (OMEN) was used from nanoHUB.org to do this simulation. I am curious about how else this could be applied. What other nanostructures might we be able to simulate in this way?
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