An efficient vectorization of linked-cell particle simulations

CF '12 - Proceedings of the ACM Computing Frontiers Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 241-243

  Eckhardt, Wolfgang ^a   Heinecke, Alexander ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

linked cell; many multi core; n body; particle simulation; SIMD

Indexed keywords

LINKED-CELL; MANY/MULTI-CORE; N-BODY; PARTICLE SIMULATIONS; SIMD;

MOLECULAR DYNAMICS;

COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE;

EID: 84862640295     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2212908.2212943     Document Type: Conference Paper

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