Numerical modeling of gravitational wave sources accelerated by OpenCL

Computer Physics Communications

Volumn 181, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 1605-1611

  Khanna, Gaurav ^a   McKennon, Justin ^a  

^a Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

Cell BE; CUDA; GPU; Numerical relativity; OpenCL

Indexed keywords

CUDA; GRAVITATIONAL WAVES; HARDWARE ACCELERATORS; MODELING APPLICATIONS; NUMERICAL MODELING; NUMERICAL RELATIVITY; PARALLELIZATIONS; PERFORMANCE GAIN;

RELATIVITY;

EID: 77955303456     PISSN: 00104655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cpc.2010.05.014     Document Type: Article

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