A high performance agent based modelling framework on graphics card hardware with CUDA

Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, AAMAS

Volumn 2, Issue , 2009, Pages 1106-1107

  Richmond, Paul ^a   Coakley, Simon ^a   Romano, Daniela M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Agent based modelling; CUDA; Graphics processing unit; Parallel algorithms; Performance

Indexed keywords

AUTONOMOUS AGENTS; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS; PARALLEL ALGORITHMS; PARALLEL ARCHITECTURES; PROGRAM PROCESSORS;

AGENT COMMUNICATIONS; AGENT SPECIFICATION; AGENT-BASED MODELLING; CUDA; EFFICIENT IMPLEMENTATION; GRAPHICS PROCESSING UNIT; NVIDIA COMPUTE UNIFIED DEVICE ARCHITECTURE (CUDA); PERFORMANCE;

COMPUTER GRAPHICS EQUIPMENT;

EID: 84899881484     PISSN: 15488403     EISSN: 15582914     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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