A new parallel simulation technique

Journal of Computational Physics

Volumn 231, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 98-108

  Blanco Pillado, Jose J ^a   Olum, Ken D ^a   Shlaer, Benjamin ^a  

^a TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cosmic strings; Parallel processing; Simulation

Indexed keywords

PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

COSMIC STRINGS; LARGE VOLUMES; MEMORY SIZE; PARALLEL PROCESSING; PARALLEL SIMULATION TECHNIQUES; PARALLEL TECHNIQUES; SIMULATION; SPACE-TIME VOLUME; TEST CASE; TWO WAY COMMUNICATIONS;

COSMOLOGY;

EID: 80054864864     PISSN: 00219991     EISSN: 10902716     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcp.2011.08.029     Document Type: Article

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