Dynamic partitioning of GATE Monte-Carlo simulations on EGEE

Journal of Grid Computing

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 241-259

  Camarasu Pop, Sorina ^a   Glatard, Tristan ^a   Mościcki, Jakub T ^c   Benoit Cattin, Hugues ^a   Sarrut, David ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON   (France)

^c CERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Dynamic particle parallelism; EGEE; GATE; Grid computing; Monte Carlo simulations; Pilot jobs; Workflows

Indexed keywords

DYNAMIC PARTITIONING; END-USERS; EXECUTION FRAMEWORK; EXECUTION TIME; GENERICITY; MONTE CARLO; MONTE CARLO SIMULATION; PARALLELIZATIONS; PARTICLE TRACKING; RADIATION THERAPY; RUNNING TIME; WORK-FLOWS;

MANAGEMENT;

GRID COMPUTING;

EID: 77952419934     PISSN: 15707873     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10723-010-9153-0     Document Type: Article

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