High-performance gravitational N-body simulations on a planet-wide- distributed supercomputer

Computational Science and Discovery

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Groen, Derek ^a   Zwart, Simon Portegies ^a   Ishiyama, Tomoaki ^b   Makino, Jun ^b  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b NATIONAL ASTRONOMICAL OBSERVATORY OF JAPAN   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMSTERDAM; COLD DARK MATTERS; FINLAND; LOCAL SCHEDULING; N-BODY SIMULATION; NETHERLANDS; NETWORK LATENCIES; RESERVATION POLICY;

COSMOLOGY; FIBER OPTIC NETWORKS; GRAVITATION; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION;

SUPERCOMPUTERS;

EID: 80755127158     PISSN: 17494680     EISSN: 17494699     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1749-4699/4/1/015001     Document Type: Article

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