Crystallization on a sphere using the simulated annealing algorithm implemented on H.P.C. systems

The research presented here is a comparison of the scalability of the simulated annealing algorithm on a vector super computer (CRAY Y-MP) with the scalability of a parallel implementation on a massively parallel transputer surface (Parsytec GCel with 512 nodes of typeT805). Some results of the annealing procedure applied to thecrystallization of Lennard-Jones particles on a sphere arepresented.