Using hybrid parallelism to improve memory use in the Uintah framework

Proceedings of the TeraGrid 2011 Conference: Extreme Digital Discovery, TG'11

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages

  Meng, Qingyu ^a   Berzins, Martin ^a   Schmidt, John ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

Author keywords

adaptive; hybrid parallelism; memory; parallel; scalability; Uintah

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE; HYBRID PARALLELISM; MEMORY; PARALLEL; UINTAH;

SCALABILITY;

EID: 80052342364     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2016741.2016767     Document Type: Conference Paper

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