Simulations of magnetic materials with MDGRAPE-2

IBM Journal of Research and Development

Volumn 48, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 199-207

  Elmegreen, B G ^a   Koch, R H ^a   Schabes, M E ^b   Crawford, T ^c   Ebisuzaki, T ^d   Furusawa, H ^d   Narumi, T ^d   Susukita, R ^d   Yasuoka, K ^e  

^a IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b HITACHI AMERICA LTD   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d INST OF PHYS AND CHEMICAL RESEARCH   (Japan)

^e KEIO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASTRONOMY; COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; COMPUTER HARDWARE; GRAVITATIONAL EFFECTS; HARD DISK STORAGE; MAGNETIC MATERIALS; MAGNETIC STORAGE; PIPELINE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; RANDOM ACCESS STORAGE;

ACCELERATOR HARDWARE; MAGNETIC RANDOM ACCESS STORAGE; MICROMAGNETICS SIMULATION; STARS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

EID: 2442654313     PISSN: 00188646     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1147/rd.482.0199     Document Type: Article

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