Better than a petaflop: The power of efficient experimental design

Proceedings - Winter Simulation Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 73-84

  Sanchez, Susan M ^a  

^a NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BASIC CONCEPTS; COMPUTATIONAL CAPABILITIES; DESIGNED EXPERIMENTS; EFFICIENT EXPERIMENTAL DESIGNS; EXPERIMENTAL DESIGNS; HIGH-PERFORMANCE COMPUTING; LOWER COSTS; SAMPLING FACTORS; SCIENCE AND ENGINEERINGS; SIMULATION MODELS; SIMULATION STUDIES; SINGLE COMPUTING; TRIAL-AND-ERROR APPROACHES;

STATISTICS;

DESIGN OF EXPERIMENTS;

EID: 60749122618     PISSN: 08917736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/WSC.2008.4736057     Document Type: Conference Paper

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