Switching to high gear: Opportunities for grand-scale real-time parallel simulations

Proceedings - IEEE International Symposium on Distributed Simulation and Real-Time Applications, DS-RT

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 3-10

  Perumalla, Kalyan S ^a  

^a OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPLICATION AREA; BEHAVIORAL MODELING; COMPUTATIONAL CAPACITY; COMPUTATIONAL POWER; EPIDEMIC MODELING; GRAPHICS CARD; MOBILITY MODELING; MULTI-CORE PROCESSOR; PARALLEL SIMULATIONS; PROCESSOR CORES; REAL TIME SIMULATIONS; REAL-TIME SOLUTIONS; SIMULATION-BASED; TIME PARALLEL SIMULATION;

AD HOC NETWORKS; CHANNEL CAPACITY; DIELECTRIC RELAXATION; SUPERCOMPUTERS;

SOFTWARE PROTOTYPING;

EID: 77951444804     PISSN: 15506525     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/DS-RT.2009.41     Document Type: Conference Paper

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