Simulating the universe on an intercontinental grid

Computer

Volumn 43, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 63-70

  Portegies Zwart, Simon ^a   Groen, Derek ^b   Ishiyama, Tomoaki ^c   Nitadori, Keigo ^d   Makino, Junichiro ^e   De Laat, Cees ^f   McMillan, Steve ^g   Hiraki, Kei ^c   Harfst, Stefan ^a   Grosso, Paola ^f  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^d RIKEN   (Japan)

^e National Astronomical University of Japan   (Japan)

^f UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^g DREXEL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cosmological models; Distributed resources; Grid computing; High performance computing; Large scale simulation; Scientific computing

Indexed keywords

EID: 77956026970     PISSN: 00189162     EISSN: None     Source Type: Trade Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/MC.2009.419     Document Type: Article

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