Toward real-time Monte Carlo simulation using a commercial cloud computing infrastructure

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 56, Issue 17, 2011, Pages

  Wang, Henry ^a   Ma, Yunzhi ^b   Pratx, Guillem ^b   Xing, Lei ^b  

^a Stanford University   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BROAD BEAMS; COMPUTATIONAL COSTS; COMPUTING INFRASTRUCTURES; COMPUTING RESOURCE; DOSE CALCULATION; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; GOLD STANDARDS; HANDSHAKING PROTOCOL; HETEROGENEOUS MEDIUM; HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING; HIGH PERFORMANCE PARALLEL COMPUTING; HIGH-ENERGY ELECTRON; INTERNET ACCESS; LOCAL COMPUTER; MC SIMULATION; MESSAGE PASSING INTERFACE; MONTE CARLO; MONTE CARLO SIMULATION; PARALLELIZATIONS; PENCIL BEAM; RADIATION TREATMENTS; SIMULATION DATA; SIMULATION TIME; SINGLE-THREADED; SPEED-UPS; THIRD PARTIES; ULTRA-FAST; VIRTUAL CLUSTERS; WORKER NODES;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION; COMPUTER SYSTEMS; DATA REDUCTION; INTERFACES (COMPUTER); INTERNET PROTOCOLS; MESSAGE PASSING; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PARALLEL ARCHITECTURES; PHOTONS; RADIOTHERAPY;

CLOUD COMPUTING;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EVALUATION; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INSTRUMENTATION; INTERNET; METHODOLOGY; MONTE CARLO METHOD; RADIOTHERAPY;

ALGORITHMS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTING METHODOLOGIES; HUMANS; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; INTERNET; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIOTHERAPY; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SOFTWARE;

EID: 80052060875     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/56/17/N02     Document Type: Review

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