Optimizing large scale chemical transport models for multicore platforms

Proceedings of the 2008 Spring Simulation Multiconference, SpringSim'08

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 369-376

  Linford, John C ^a   Sandu, Adrian ^a  

^a VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Chemical transport model; Domain decomposition; IBM Cell Broadband Engine; Intel Quad Core Xeon; Multicore; Scalability; Time splitting

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL TRANSPORT MODEL; DOMAIN DECOMPOSITION; IBM CELL BROADBAND ENGINE; INTEL QUAD-CORE XEON; MULTICORE; TIME SPLITTING;

CELL MEMBRANES; DECOMPOSITION; DOMAIN DECOMPOSITION METHODS; ENGINES; MONTE CARLO METHODS; MULTIPROCESSING SYSTEMS; SCALABILITY;

SIMULATORS;

EID: 70249109727     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1400549.1400605     Document Type: Conference Paper

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