A new fast parallel statistical measurement technique for computational cosmology

International Journal of High Performance Computing and Networking

Volumn 4, Issue 5-6, 2006, Pages 303-310

  Thacker, Robert J ^a   Couchman, H M P ^b  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

cosmology; parallel programming; simulation; statistics

Indexed keywords

EID: 68149092180     PISSN: 17400562     EISSN: 17400570     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/ijhpcn.2006.013485     Document Type: Article

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