Comparison of nonlinear conjugate-gradient methods for computing the electronic properties of nanostructure architectures

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

Volumn 3516, Issue III, 2005, Pages 317-325

  Tomov, Stanimire ^a   Langou, Julien ^a   Canning, Andrew ^b   Wang, Lin Wang ^b   Dongarra, Jack ^a  

^a University of Tennessee   (United States)

^b LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CODES (STANDARDS); EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; ELECTRONIC PROPERTIES; PROBLEM SOLVING; CONJUGATE GRADIENT METHOD; DIGITAL LIBRARIES; NANOSTRUCTURES; NONLINEAR PROGRAMMING;

CONJUGATE GRADIENTS (CG); LARGE NANOSTRUCTURES; PARALLEL ENERGY SCAN (PESCAN); EIGENVALUE SOLVERS; NONLINEAR CONJUGATE GRADIENT; NONLINEAR CONJUGATE GRADIENT METHOD; PARALLEL ENERGY SCANS; STATE OF THE ART;

NANOTECHNOLOGY; ELECTRONIC PROPERTIES;

EID: 24344451780     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1007/11428862_44     Document Type: Conference Paper

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