Accelerating a particle-in-cell simulation using a hybrid counting sort

Journal of Computational Physics

Volumn 173, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 393-411

  Bowers, K J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cache thrashing; Counting sort; Particle in cell; Plasma simulation

Indexed keywords

MEMORY ARCHITECTURE; PARTICLE BEAM DYNAMICS;

A-PARTICLES; CACHE THRASHING; CONDITION; COUNTING SORT; MEMORY SUBSYSTEMS; PARTICLE IN CELL; PARTICLE-IN-CELL SIMULATIONS; PERFORMANCE LIMITATIONS; PLASMA-SIMULATION; SUSTAINED PERFORMANCE;

PLASMA SIMULATION;

EID: 0035505552     PISSN: 00219991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jcph.2001.6851     Document Type: Article

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