Efficient GPU data structures and methods to solve sparse linear systems in dynamics applications

Computer Graphics Forum

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 16-26

  Weber, Daniel ^a   Bender, Jan ^b   Schnoes, Markus ^b   Stork, André ^a,b   Fellner, Dieter ^a,b  

^a FRAUNHOFER IGD   (Germany)

^b DARMSTADT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

GPU computing; interactive simulation; linear systems; physically based modeling

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER GRAPHICS EQUIPMENT; DATA STRUCTURES; DEFORMATION; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; GRAPHICS PROCESSING UNIT; LINEAR SYSTEMS; MULTIPROCESSING SYSTEMS; PROGRAM PROCESSORS; RIGID STRUCTURES;

COMPUTATIONAL EFFORT; GPU COMPUTING; INTERACTIVE SIMULATIONS; MULTI BODY SYSTEMS; PHYSICALLY BASED MODELING; SPARSE LINEAR SYSTEMS; SPARSE MATRIX-VECTOR MULTIPLICATION; SYSTEMS OF LINEAR EQUATIONS;

MATRIX ALGEBRA;

EID: 84874941564     PISSN: 01677055     EISSN: 14678659     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8659.2012.03227.x     Document Type: Article

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