Accelerating cosmological data analysis with graphics processors

Proceedings of 2nd Workshop on General Purpose Processing on Graphics Processing Units, GPGPU-2

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 1-

  Roeh, Dylan W ^a   Kindratenko, V ^a   Brunner, J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Algorithms; Experimentation; GPGPU; Performance; Two point angular correlation function

Indexed keywords

ANGULAR CORRELATIONS; ANGULAR SEPARATION; DATA ANALYSIS; EXPERIMENTATION; GPGPU; GRAPHICS PROCESSOR; LARGE DATASETS; ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE; PERFORMANCE; PERFORMANCE IMPROVEMENTS; TWO-POINT; TWO-POINT ANGULAR CORRELATION FUNCTION; TWO-POINT CORRELATION;

ANGULAR DISTRIBUTION; BINS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COSMOLOGY; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; PROGRAM PROCESSORS;

REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

EID: 67650689006     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1513895.1513896     Document Type: Conference Paper

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