A parallel implementation of the Wang-Landau algorithm

Computer Physics Communications

Volumn 179, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 339-344

  Zhan, Lixin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Distributed computing; Monte Carlo; OpenMP; Wang Landau

Indexed keywords

APPLICATION PROGRAMMING INTERFACES (API); BLOCK CODES; BOOLEAN FUNCTIONS; FERROMAGNETISM; ISING MODEL; ITERATIVE METHODS; MAGNETISM; MANAGEMENT SCIENCE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; RANDOM PROCESSES; WAVE FUNCTIONS;

APPLIED (CO); CONFIGURATION SPACES; DENSITY OF STATES (DOF); DISTRIBUTED COMPUTING; ELSEVIER (CO); FINAL DENSITY; MODEL SYSTEMS; MONTE CARLO (MC); PARALLEL IMPLEMENTATIONS; RANDOM WALK (RW); RESEARCH FIELDS; RUNNING SPEED; SHARED MEMORIES; SIMULATION EFFICIENCY; TO MANY; WANG-LANDAU ALGORITHMS;

PARALLEL ALGORITHMS;

EID: 48149106513     PISSN: 00104655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cpc.2008.04.002     Document Type: Article

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