A parallel automatic differentiation algorithm for simulation models

Simulation Practice and Theory

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 235-252

  De Luca, Luigi ^a   Musmanno, Roberto ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALABRIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Automatic differentiation; Distributed memory systems; MIMD; Numerical analysis; Parallel algorithms; Parallel processing; Parallel simulation

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; DIFFERENTIATION (CALCULUS); NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; PARALLEL ALGORITHMS; PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; TRANSPUTERS;

PARALLEL AUTOMATIC DIFFERENTIATION;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

EID: 0042763986     PISSN: 09284869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0928-4869(96)00016-x     Document Type: Article

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