A toolkit for interactive molecular dynamics simulation and visualization

Computer simulations of very large many-particle systems open the door to the solution and better understanding of a variety of relevant problems in statistical mechanics such as nonlinear systems, phase transitions, critical phenomena, percolation and fractals. The Interactive Molecular Dynamics System (IMDS) is an object-oriented toolkit that allows one to simulate and visualize various physical systems in real-time. Computationally intensive tasks are performed using Parallel Distributed Computing (PDC) on a cluster of workstations and are based on efficient spatial domain decomposition techniques.