Parallelization of a Monte Carlo particle transport simulation code

Computer Physics Communications

Volumn 181, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 928-936

  Hadjidoukas, P ^a   Bousis, C ^a   Emfietzoglou, D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOANNINA   (Greece)

Author keywords

Monte Carlo; MPI; Parallel processing; Particle transport; Radiation dosimetry

Indexed keywords

AMD OPTERON; APPLICATION CODES; C PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES; CODE PORTABILITY; DISTRIBUTED MEMORY; DUAL CORE-PROCESSORS; DUAL-CORE; ENERGY LOSS; INTEL XEON SERVER; MESSAGE PASSING INTERFACE; MICROSOFT EXCEL; MONTE CARLO; MONTE CARLO PARTICLES; MULTIPROCESSOR SERVERS; PARALLEL CODE; PARALLEL COMPUTING ARCHITECTURE; PARALLEL IMPLEMENTATIONS; PARALLEL PROCESSING; PARALLELIZATIONS; PARTICLE ENERGY; PARTICLE TRANSPORT; PHYSICAL MEMORY; PHYSICAL MODEL; PROBLEM SIZE; PSEUDO RANDOM NUMBER GENERATORS; RADIATION DOSIMETRY; RANDOM NUMBER GENERATORS; RESPONSE TIME; SUN CLUSTER; VISUAL BASIC FOR APPLICATIONS;

C (PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE); DOSIMETERS; DOSIMETRY; ENERGY DISSIPATION; MESSAGE PASSING; MODELS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; MULTIPROCESSING SYSTEMS; NUMBER THEORY; PARALLEL ARCHITECTURES; PARTICLE SEPARATORS; SPREADSHEETS;

RANDOM NUMBER GENERATION;

EID: 77649234767     PISSN: 00104655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cpc.2010.01.005     Document Type: Article

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