Computing intensive simulations in biofilm modeling

Proceedings - International Symposium on High Performance Computing Systems and Applications

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 132-138

  Eberl, Hermann J ^a   Muhammad, Nasim ^a   Sudarsan, Rangarajan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

Author keywords

Biofilm model; Data uncertainty; Parallel computation

Indexed keywords

BIO FILMS; BIOFILM MODEL; DATA UNCERTAINTY; INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM; PARALLEL COMPUTATION;

BIOFILTERS;

EID: 51749107776     PISSN: 15505243     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/HPCS.2008.20     Document Type: Conference Paper

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