Performance emulation of cell-based AMR cosmology simulations

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Cluster Computing, ICCC

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 8-16

  Wu, Jingjin ^a   González, Roberto E ^b   Lan, Zhiling ^a   Gnedin, Nickolay Y ^b,c   Kravtsov, Andrey V ^b   Rudd, Douglas H ^d   Yu, Yongen ^a  

^a Illinois Institute of Technology   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^c NASA FERMILAB ASTROPHYSICS CENTER   (United States)

^d YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

adaptive mesh refinement; cosmology simulation; load balancing; performance emulator

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE MESH REFINEMENT; ADAPTIVE REFINEMENT; CELL-BASED; COMPARISON RESULT; LOAD BALANCE; LOAD-BALANCING; LOAD-BALANCING SCHEMES; PERFORMANCE EMULATOR; PERFORMANCE MODEL; SIMULATION TOOL;

CLUSTER COMPUTING; COSMOLOGY; PARALLEL ARCHITECTURES; SUPERCOMPUTERS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

EID: 80955167935     PISSN: 15525244     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CLUSTER.2011.10     Document Type: Conference Paper

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