Accelerating Monte Carlo simulations with an NVIDIA® graphics processor

Computer Physics Communications

Volumn 180, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 1983-1989

  Martinsen, Paul ^a   Blaschke, Johannes ^b   Künnemeyer, Rainer ^c   Jordan, Robert ^a  

^a THE NEW ZEALAND INSTITUTE FOR PLANT AND FOOD RESEARCH LIMITED   (New Zealand)

^b PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WAIKATO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

General purpose graphics card computing; Monte Carlo photon transport; Parallel computing; Scattering media

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE X; CATALOGUE IDENTIFIERS; DESKTOP COMPUTER; DISTRIBUTED PROGRAM; EFFECTIVE ALGORITHMS; GENERAL PURPOSE GRAPHICS CARD COMPUTING; GENERAL-PURPOSE COMPUTING; GRAPHICS CARD; GRAPHICS PROCESSOR; IRELAND; ISOTROPIC POINTS; MICROSOFT FOUNDATION CLASS; MONTE CARLO ALGORITHMS; MONTE CARLO PHOTON TRANSPORT; MONTE CARLO SIMULATION; MONTE CARLO TECHNIQUES; NVIDIA GRAPHICS; OPERATING SYSTEMS; PARALLEL COMPUTING; PHOTON TRANSPORT; PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE; RANDOM NUMBERS; RUNNING TIME; RUNTIMES; SCATTERING EVENTS; SCATTERING MEDIA; SIMD ARCHITECTURE; SIMULATION PARAMETERS; SINGLE PRECISION; SINGLE-THREADED; SOLUTION METHODS; SOURCE CODES; STANDARD DESKTOP; TEST DATA; TURBID MEDIA; WINDOWS XP;

ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN; COMPUTER SCIENCE; COMPUTER SIMULATION LANGUAGES; CORROSION PREVENTION; LIGHT; LIGHT TRANSMISSION; MATLAB; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PARALLEL ARCHITECTURES; PERSONAL COMPUTERS; PHOTONS; SCATTERING; SOLAR CONCENTRATORS; TEST FACILITIES; TURBIDITY; USER INTERFACES; WINDOWS OPERATING SYSTEM;

COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

EID: 69449099495     PISSN: 00104655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cpc.2009.05.013     Document Type: Article

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