Dynamic load balancing for parallel interval-Newton using message passing

Computers and Chemical Engineering

Volumn 26, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 811-825

  Gau, Chao Yang ^a   Stadtherr, Mark A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (United States)

Author keywords

Branch and bound; Branch and prune; Interval analysis; Nonlinear equations; Optimization; Parallel computing

Indexed keywords

NONLINEAR EQUATIONS; OPTIMIZATION;

VIRTUAL NETWORKS;

CHEMICAL ENGINEERING;

PARALLEL COMPUTING;

ALGORITHM; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DIFFUSION; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MEASUREMENT; TECHNOLOGY;

EID: 0037098688     PISSN: 00981354     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0098-1354(02)00006-6     Document Type: Article

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