A case study for petascale applications in astrophysics: Simulating gamma-ray bursts

ACM International Conference Proceeding Series

Volumn 320, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Ott, C D ^a   Schnetter, E ^b   Allen, G ^b   Seidel, E ^b   Tao, J ^b   Zink, B ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASTROPHYSICAL OBJECTS; COMPUTATIONAL REQUIREMENTS; COMPUTATIONAL STUDIES; CPU POWER; GAMMA RAY BURSTS; PETA-SCALE COMPUTING; PETASCALE;

ASTROPHYSICS; GRID COMPUTING; STARS;

GAMMA RAYS;

EID: 77953795231     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1341811.1341831     Document Type: Conference Paper

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