Using graphics processors for high-performance computation and visualization of plasma turbulence

Computing in Science and Engineering

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 52-59

  Stantchev, George ^a   Juba, Derek ^a   Dorland, William ^a   Varshney, Amitabh ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Direct numerical simulation; GPU programming; Graphics processing unit; Plasma turbulence; Scientific computing

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL BOTTLENECKS; COMPUTATIONAL STEERING; DISTRIBUTED MEMORY ARCHITECTURES; GPU PROGRAMMING; GRAPHICS PROCESSING UNIT; GRAPHICS PROCESSORS; HIGH MEMORY BANDWIDTHS; INTER-PROCESSOR COMMUNICATIONS; NON-LINEAR MODELS; PARALLEL PROCESSING; PERFORMANCE COMPUTATIONS; SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING; SPATIAL DISCRETIZATION; SPECTRAL KERNELS; TIGHTLY-COUPLED; TURBULENCE SIMULATIONS; TURBULENCE THEORIES;

IMAGE CODING; INTERNET PROTOCOLS; MAGNETOHYDRODYNAMICS; PARALLEL ALGORITHMS; PLASMA TURBULENCE; PLASMAS; VISUALIZATION;

DIRECT NUMERICAL SIMULATION;

EID: 60849129444     PISSN: 15219615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/MCSE.2009.42     Document Type: Article

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