John K. Salmon

12.6k citations

56 papers · 7.1k indexed · 3 hit papers · h-index 24

Impact in

Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design top 1%
Hardware and Architecture top 1%
- Parallel Computing and Optimization Techniques

Papers in

Hardware and Architecture 21
- Parallel Computing and Optimization Techniques 21
Instrumentation 5

Co-authors: Michael S. Warren Ron O. Dror David E. Shaw Yibing Shan Michael P. Eastwood Mark A. Moraes John L. Klepeis Huafeng Xu
Journals: The Astrophysical Journal (3 papers)Journal of Computational Physics (2 papers)Computer Physics Communications (1 paper)Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery (1 paper)IEEE Micro (1 paper)
Partner nations: United States Australia Belgium

In The Last Decade

John K. Salmon

55 papers receiving 6.8k citations

Hit Papers

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Atomic-Level Characterization of the Structural Dynamics of Proteins 2010 · 1.4k citations

What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if any of the following hold:

it has ≥500 total citations;
it reaches ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (the threshold is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it);
it reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

2010 Science
2006 Scalable Algorithms for Molecular Dynamics Simulations on Commodity Clusters
2006 Molecular dynamics---Scalable algorithms for molecular dynamics simulations on commodity clusters

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All Works

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1	Evaluating the Effects of Cutoffs and Treatment of Long-range Electrostatics in Protein Folding Simulations PLoS ONE ·Stefano Piana, Kresten Lindorff‐Larsen, Robert M. Dirks, John K. Salmon, Ron O. Dror, David E. Shaw	2012	86
2	Atomic-Level Characterization of the Structural Dynamics of Proteins Science ·David E. Shaw, Paul Maragakis, Kresten Lindorff‐Larsen, Stefano Piana, Ron O. Dror, Michael P. Eastwood, Joseph A. Bank, John Jumper, John K. Salmon, Yibing Shan, Willy Wriggers Hit paper breakdown →	2010	1415
3	A 32x32x32, spatially distributed 3D FFT in four microseconds on Anton Cliff Young, Joseph A. Bank, Ron O. Dror, J.P. Grossman, John K. Salmon, David E. Shaw	2009	30
4	High-throughput pairwise point interactions in Anton, a specialized machine for molecular dynamics simulation Richard H. Larson, John K. Salmon, Ron O. Dror, Martin M. Deneroff, Cliff Young, J.P. Grossman, Yibing Shan, John L. Klepeis, Геннадий Германович Бондаренко	2008	15
5	Anton: A specialized ASIC for molecular dynamics Martin M. Deneroff, David E. Shaw, Ron O. Dror, Jeffrey S. Kuskin, Richard H. Larson, John K. Salmon, Cliff Young	2008	6
6	Hierarchical simulation-based verification of Anton, a special-purpose parallel machine J.P. Grossman, John K. Salmon, C. Richard Ho, Douglas J. Ierardi, Brian Towles, Brannon Batson, Jochen Spengler, Stanley C. Wang, Rolf Mueller, Michael Theobald, Cliff Young, Joseph Gagliardo, Martin M. Deneroff, Ron O. Dror, Геннадий Германович Бондаренко	2008	3
7	Molecular dynamics---Scalable algorithms for molecular dynamics simulations on commodity clusters K. J. Bowers, Federico D. Sacerdoti, John K. Salmon, Yibing Shan, David E. Shaw, Edmond Chow, Huafeng Xu, Ron O. Dror, Michael P. Eastwood, Brent A. Gregersen, John L. Klepeis, István Kolossváry, Mark A. Moraes Hit paper breakdown →	2006	1925
8	Astrophysical N-body simulations using hierarchical tree data structures Michael S. Warren, John K. Salmon	2003	36
9	Parallel N log N N-body algorithms and applications to astrophysics John K. Salmon	2002	4
10	Scaling of Beowulf-class Distributed Systems Conference on High Performance Computing (Supercomputing) ·John K. Salmon, Baisong Chen, Thomas Sterling	1998	6
11	Avalon: an Alpha/Linux cluster achieves 10 Gflops for $15k Conference on High Performance Computing (Supercomputing) ·Michael S. Warren, Timothy C. Germann, P. S. Lomdahl, David M. Beazley, John K. Salmon	1998	27
12	Parallel, out-of-core methods for N-body simulation University of North Texas Digital Library (University of North Texas) ·John K. Salmon, Floyd A. Warren	1997	32
13	Parallel halo finding in N -body cosmology simulations Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining ·Sletkov La, John K. Salmon	1996	4
14	The fast solution of three-dimensional fluid dynamical N-body problems using parallel tree codes: Vortex element method and boundary element method PPSC ·Grégoire Winckelmans, John K. Salmon, Michael S. Warren, A. Léonard	1995	11
15	A portable parallel particle program Computer Physics Communications ·Michael S. Warren, John K. Salmon	1995	119
16	Large-scale structure after COBE: Peculiar velocities and correlations of cold dark matter halos The Astrophysical Journal ·Wojciech H. Zurek, Peter J. Quinn, John K. Salmon, Michael S. Warren	1994	56
17	N-Body Simulations of α 4 Isophote Deviations in Elliptical Galaxies European Southern Observatory Conference and Workshop Proceedings ·Isabel Cofiño Fernández, P. J. Quinn, John K. Salmon	1993	1
18	Fast Parallel Treecodes for Gravitational and Fluid Dynamical N-body Problems Defense Technical Information Center (DTIC) ·John K. Salmon, Grégoire Winckelmans, Michael S. Warren	1993	37
19	Astrophysical N-body simulations using hierarchical tree data structures Conference on High Performance Computing (Supercomputing) ·Michael S. Warren, John K. Salmon	1992	114
20	FOREST: A Parallel Treecode for Gravitational N-Body Simulations with up to 20 Million Particles Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society ·Michael S. Warren, John K. Salmon	1991	2

About John K. Salmon

John K. Salmon is a scholar working on Hardware and Architecture, Instrumentation, Statistical and Nonlinear Physics, Computer Networks and Communications and Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design, having authored 56 papers that have together received 7.1k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Parallel Computing and Optimization Techniques (21 papers), Advanced Data Storage Technologies (13 papers), Scientific Research and Discoveries (13 papers), Distributed and Parallel Computing Systems (10 papers), Algorithms and Data Compression (7 papers), Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena (6 papers), Computational Physics and Python Applications (6 papers) and Fluid Dynamics Simulations and Interactions (6 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design (347 citations), Hardware and Architecture (569 citations), Instrumentation (231 citations), Computational Theory and Mathematics (1.0k citations) and Molecular Biology (3.0k citations). John K. Salmon has collaborated with scholars based in United States, Australia and Belgium. Frequent co-authors include Michael S. Warren, Ron O. Dror, David E. Shaw, Yibing Shan, Michael P. Eastwood, Mark A. Moraes, John L. Klepeis, Huafeng Xu, Brent A. Gregersen and Federico D. Sacerdoti. Their work appears in journals such as The Astrophysical Journal, Journal of Computational Physics, Computer Physics Communications, Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery and IEEE Micro.

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