A large scale Monte Carlo simulator for cellular microphysiology

Proceedings - International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium, IPDPS 2004 (Abstracts and CD-ROM)

Volumn 18, Issue , 2004, Pages 561-570

  Balls, Gregory T ^a   Baden, Scott B ^a   Kispersky, Tilman ^b   Bartol, Thomas M ^b   Sejnowski, Terrence J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b SALK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL STUDIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOCHEMISTRY; CELLS; COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA STORAGE EQUIPMENT; HIGH LEVEL LANGUAGES; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PARALLEL ALGORITHMS; PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS; QUANTUM THEORY; RANDOM PROCESSES;

CELLULAR MICROPHYSIOLOGY; MODEL DESCRIPTION LANGUAGE (MDL); MOLECULAR MECHANICS; RANDOM WALK;

PHYSIOLOGICAL MODELS;

EID: 12444257412     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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