Beyond homogeneous decomposition: Scaling long-range forces on massively parallel systems

Proceedings of the Conference on High Performance Computing Networking, Storage and Analysis, SC '09

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  Richards, D F ^a   Glosli, J N ^a   Chan, B ^a   Dorr, M R ^a   Draeger, E W ^a   Fattebert, J L ^a   Krauss, W D ^a   Spelce, T ^a   Streitz, F H ^a   Surh, M P ^a   Gunnels, J A ^b  

^a LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b IBM   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASTROPHYSICAL SIMULATIONS; BENCHMARK CALCULATIONS; DECOMPOSITION APPROACH; GERMANY; HOMOGENEOUS DECOMPOSITION; HOT DENSE PLASMA; LONG-RANGE FORCES; MASSIVELY PARALLEL SYSTEMS; PARTICLE SIMULATIONS; PEAK PERFORMANCE; PLASMA FUSION; SCALING PROPERTIES; SIMULATION CAPABILITY;

ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT MANUFACTURE; SUPERCOMPUTERS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

EID: 74049108626     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1654059.1654121     Document Type: Conference Paper

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