Astrophysical particle simulations with large custom GPU clusters on three continents

Computer Science - Research and Development

Volumn 26, Issue 3-4, 2011, Pages 145-151

  Spurzem, R ^a,b   Berczik, P ^a,b,e   Berentzen, I ^b,d   Nitadori, K ^c   Hamada, T ^c   Marcus, G ^d   Kugel, A ^d   Manner R ^d   Fiestas, J ^a,b   Banerjee, R ^d   Klessen, R ^d  

^a CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^b ASTRONOMISCHES RECHEN INSTITUT   (Germany)

^c NAGASAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^e NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF UKRAINE   (Ukraine)

Author keywords

Computational astrophysics; GPU clusters; N Body simulations

Indexed keywords

EID: 80051668799     PISSN: 18652034     EISSN: 18652042     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00450-011-0173-1     Document Type: Conference Paper

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