A Hardware-Accelerated Quantum Monte Carlo framework (HAQMC) for N-body systems

Computer Physics Communications

Volumn 180, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 2563-2573

  Gothandaraman, Akila ^a   Peterson, Gregory D ^a   Warren, G Lee ^b   Hinde, Robert J ^c   Harrison, Robert J ^c  

^a University of Tennessee Knoxville   (United States)

^b YESHIVA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cray XD1; Field programmable gate arrays; FPGA; Monte Carlo; Quantum Monte Carlo; Reconfigurable computing

Indexed keywords

CRAY XD1; FPGA; MONTE CARLO; QUANTUM MONTE CARLO; RECONFIGURABLE COMPUTING;

ATOMS; COMPUTER HARDWARE; COMPUTER HARDWARE DESCRIPTION LANGUAGES; COMPUTER OPERATING SYSTEMS; COMPUTER SCIENCE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CORROSION PREVENTION; FIELD PROGRAMMABLE GATE ARRAYS (FPGA); GROUND STATE; HARDWARE; HELIUM; INDUCTION MOTORS; INERT GASES; LOGIC GATES; MICROPROCESSOR CHIPS; NUMBER THEORY; SOLAR CONCENTRATORS; TEST FACILITIES; WAVE FUNCTIONS;

MONTE CARLO METHODS;

EID: 70350597688     PISSN: 00104655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cpc.2009.06.027     Document Type: Article

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