Finite-element analyses of problems in electromagnetic launch using a PC-based Beowulf cluster with high-speed networks

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 39, Issue 1 I, 2003, Pages 168-172

  Thiagarajan, Venkataraman ^a   Milfeld, Kent ^a   Hsieh, Kuo Ta ^a   Hodge, Jared ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Beowulf clusters; Computational electromagnetics; Finite elements; Massively parallel processing; Sparse matrix solutions

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC CONTACTS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; MULTIPROCESSING SYSTEMS; PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS; PERSONAL COMPUTERS; SUPERCOMPUTERS;

BEOWULF CLUSTER; COMMERCIAL OF THE SHELF WORKSTATIONS; COMPUTATIONAL ELECTROMAGNETICS; ELECTROMAGNETIC LAUNCH; HIGH SPEED NETWORKS; MASSIVELY PARALLEL PROCESSING; SPARSE MATRIX SOLUTIONS;

ELECTROMAGNETIC LAUNCHERS;

EID: 0037230382     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMAG.2002.805961     Document Type: Article

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