Porting and optimizing MAGFLOW on CUDA

Annals of Geophysics

Volumn 54, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 580-591

  Bilotta, Giuseppe ^a,b   Rustico, Eugenio ^a   Hérault, Alexis ^b,c   Vicari, Annamaria ^b   Russo, Giovanni ^a   del Negro, Ciro ^b   Gallo, Giovanni ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CATANIA   (Italy)

^b ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI GEOFISICA E VULCANOLOGIA   (Italy)

^c Bioinformatique et Chimie Moléculaire   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; CELLULAR AUTOMATON; COMPUTER SIMULATION; LAVA FLOW; OPTIMIZATION; VOLCANIC ERUPTION;

EID: 84855851840     PISSN: 15935213     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4401/ag-5341     Document Type: Article

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