Billion-atom synchronous parallel kinetic Monte Carlo simulations of critical 3D Ising systems

Journal of Computational Physics

Volumn 230, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 1359-1369

  Martinez E ^a   Monasterio, P R ^b   Marian, J ^c  

^a IMDEA MATERIALS INSTITUTE   (Spain)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Discrete lattice; Ising system; Kinetic Monte Carlo; Parallel computing

Indexed keywords

INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS; ISING MODEL; KINETICS;

'CURRENT; DISCRETE LATTICES; ISING SYSTEMS; KINETIC MONTE CARLO; KINETIC MONTE CARLO SIMULATION; MASTER EQUATIONS; MONTE CARLO ALGORITHMS; PARALLEL COM- PUTING; SPATIAL CORRELATIONS; SUB-LATTICES;

MONTE CARLO METHODS;

EID: 78650564568     PISSN: 00219991     EISSN: 10902716     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcp.2010.11.006     Document Type: Article

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