SAPPORO: A way to turn your graphics cards into a GRAPE-6

New Astronomy

Volumn 14, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 630-637

  Gaburov, Evghenii ^a,b,c   Harfst, Stefan ^a,b   Zwart, Simon Portegies ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Galaxies: clusters: general; Methods: N body simulations; Methods: numerical; Stellar dynamics

Indexed keywords

EID: 67349205088     PISSN: 13841076     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.newast.2009.03.002     Document Type: Article

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