Teraflop per second gravitational lensing ray-shooting using graphics processing units

New Astronomy

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 16-23

  Thompson, Alexander C ^a   Fluke, Christopher J ^a   Barnes, David G ^a   Barsdell, Benjamin R ^a  

^a SWINBURNE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Gravitational lensing; Methods: numerical

Indexed keywords

EID: 69849106400     PISSN: 13841076     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.newast.2009.05.010     Document Type: Article

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