A Software Architecture for Multi-Cellular System Simulations on Graphics Processing Units

Acta Biotheoretica

Volumn 61, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 317-327

  Jeannin Girardon, Anne ^a   Ballet, Pascal ^a   Rodin, Vincent ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE BRETAGNE OCCIDENTALE   (France)

Author keywords

GPU; Multi cellular systems; OpenCL; Parallel architecture; Simulation; Virtual biology

Indexed keywords

DATA SET; HARDWARE; SIMULATION; SOFTWARE;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER PROGRAM;

COMPUTER GRAPHICS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; SOFTWARE;

EID: 84884816298     PISSN: 00015342     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10441-013-9187-3     Document Type: Article

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