Parallelization of Monte Carlo simulations and submission to a grid environment

Parallel Processing Letters

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 177-196

  Maigne, Lydia ^a   Hill, David ^b   Calvat, Pascal ^a   Breton, Vincent ^a   Reuillon, Romain ^a   Legre, Yannick ^a   Donnarieix, Denise ^a  

^a CENTRE DE CALCUL DE L INSTITUT NATIONAL DE PHYSIQUE NUCLEAIRE ET DE PHYSIQUE DES PARTICULES   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Computing time; Grid; Monte Carlo simulations; Parallelization; Pseudorandom numbers generator

Indexed keywords

COMPUTING TIME; PARALLELIZATION; PSEUDORANDOM NUMBERS GENERATORS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGING SYSTEMS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS; RANDOM NUMBER GENERATION;

MEDICAL COMPUTING;

EID: 4344574042     PISSN: 01296264     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S0129626404001829     Document Type: Article

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