Experiences with parallel N-body simulation

IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems

Volumn 11, Issue 12, 2000, Pages 1306-1323

  Liu, Pangfeng ^a,c   Bhatt, Sandeep N ^b  

^a NATIONAL CHUNG CHENG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b AKAMAI TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

^c IEEE   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE TREE STRUCTURE; BARNES-HUT ALGORITHM; COMPUTATIONAL WORK LOAD; PARALLEL N-BODY SIMULATION; PEANO-HILBERT SPACE FILING CURVE; PROGRAMMING COMPLEXITY;

ADAPTIVE SYSTEMS; ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; TREES (MATHEMATICS);

PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 0034476645     PISSN: 10459219     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/71.895795     Document Type: Article

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