Metode Komputasi - Simulasi Biomaterial
Metode Komputasi - Simulasi Biomaterial
Metode Komputasi - Simulasi Biomaterial
Biomaterial
Modeling and scientific computing
• Continuous advances in computer technology make possible the simulation
approach to scientific investigation as a third stream together with pure theory
and pure experiment
• Experiment: primary concerned with the accumulation of factual information
• Theory: mainly directed towards the interpretation and ordering of the
information in coherent patters to provide with predictive laws for the behavior of
matter through mathematical formulations
• Computation: push theories and experiments beyond the limits of manageable
mathematics and feasible experiments
– Properties of materials under extreme conditions (temperature, pressure,
etc.)
– Study of properties of complex systems - a solid crystal is already an
unmanageable system for a microscopic mathematical model!
– Testing of theories vs. experimental observation
– Suggestion of experiments for validation of the theory
• Steps to set up a meaningful computational model:
– Individuate the physical phenomenon to study
– Develop a theory and a mathematical model to describe the phenomenon
– Cast the mathematical model in a discrete form, suitable for computer
programming
– Develop and/or apply suitable numerical algorithms
– Write the simulation program
– Perform the computer experiment
• A good computational scientist has to be a little bit of:
– A theorist, to to develop new approaches to solve new problems
– An applied mathematician, to be able to translate the theory in a
mathematical form suitable for computation
– A computer scientist/programmer, to write new scientific codes or modify
existing ones to fit the needs and deal with the always changing world of
advanced and high-performance computing
– An experimentalist, to be able to define a meaningful path of computer
experiments that should lead to the description of the physical phenomenon
Multi-scale modeling
• Challenge: modeling a physical phenomenon from a broad range of
perspectives, from the atomistic to the macroscopic end
Continuum
TIME (s) Based on SDSC Blue Horizon (SP3) Methods
512-1024 processors
1.728 Tflops peak performance
CPU time = 1 week / processor
100
(s) 10-6
Semi-empirical
(ns) 10-9 methods
Monte Carlo
Molecular dynamics
(ps) 10-12 Ab initio
methods
tight-binding
(fs) 10-15