Scalable parallel octree meshing for terascale applications

Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE 2005 Supercomputing Conference, SC'05

Volumn 2005, Issue , 2005, Pages

  Tu, Tiankai ^a   O'Hallaron, David R ^b   Ghattas, Omar ^c  

^a Carnegie Mellon University ^*  (United States)

^b CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; PIPELINE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; TOPOLOGY; TREES (MATHEMATICS);

ISOGRANULAR SCALABILITY; PARALLEL OCTREE MESHING; TERASCALE APPLICATIONS;

PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 33845383076     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/SC.2005.61     Document Type: Conference Paper

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