Parallelization of sequential Gaussian, indicator and direct simulation algorithms

Computers and Geosciences

Volumn 36, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 1042-1052

  Nunes, Ruben ^a   Almeida, José A ^b  

^a INSTITUTO SUPERIOR TÉCNICO   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSIDADE NOVA DE LISBOA   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Direct sequential simulation; Parallel processing; Sequential Gaussian simulation; Sequential indicator simulation

Indexed keywords

C PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES; CO-KRIGING; COMPUTATIONAL APPLICATIONS; DIRECT SIMULATION; FLUID FLOW; FULLY COMPATIBLE; GAUSSIANS; GEO-STATISTICS; GEOSCIENCES; GLOBAL CORRELATION; INVERSE MODELLING; KEY ISSUES; KRIGING WITH AN EXTERNAL DRIFT; LOCAL MEAN; MICROSOFT; NEW HIGH; OPEN SOURCES; PARALLEL COMPUTING ARCHITECTURE; PARALLEL PROCESSING; PARALLEL VERSION; PARALLELIZATION STRATEGIES; PARALLELIZATIONS; PERFORMANCE TESTS; SEQUENTIAL GAUSSIAN SIMULATION; SEQUENTIAL INDICATOR SIMULATIONS; SEQUENTIAL SIMULATION; SIMPLE KRIGING; SIMULATION RESULT; SOIL DATA; SOURCE CODES; VISUAL C;

ALGORITHMS; BENCHMARKING; COMPUTATIONAL EFFICIENCY; GAUSSIAN DISTRIBUTION; PARALLEL ARCHITECTURES; PARALLEL FLOW;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE;

ALGORITHM; BENCHMARKING; CORRELATION; GAUSSIAN METHOD; GEOSTATISTICS; KRIGING; LINEAR PROGRAMING; NUMERICAL MODEL; PARALLEL COMPUTING; PROBABILITY; SOFTWARE;

EID: 77955052031     PISSN: 00983004     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cageo.2010.03.005     Document Type: Article

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