Acceleration of electromagnetic launchers modeling by using graphic processing units

Conference Proceedings - 2012 16th International Symposium on Electromagnetic Launch Technology, EML 2012

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages

  Musolino, Antonino ^a   Rizzo, Rocco ^a   Toni, Michele ^a   Tripodi, Ernesto ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRITICAL ISSUES; GRAPHIC PROCESSING UNITS; HIGH-PERFORMANCE COMPUTING RESOURCES; INDUCTION LAUNCHER; LOW COSTS; MEMORY MANAGEMENT; PARALLELIZATIONS; PERFORMANCE IMPROVEMENTS; SINGLE INSTRUCTION MULTIPLE DATA;

COMPUTER GRAPHICS EQUIPMENT; DATA TRANSFER; LAUNCHING; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; PARALLEL ARCHITECTURES; PROGRAM PROCESSORS;

ELECTROMAGNETIC LAUNCHERS;

EID: 84869171500     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/EML.2012.6324999     Document Type: Conference Paper

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