SAMPO: An agent-based mosquito point model in OpenCL

Simulation Series

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 36-45

  Kofler, Klaus ^a   Davis, Gregory ^b   Gesing, Sandra ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (United States)

Author keywords

Agent based modelling; GPGPU; OpenCL

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA TRANSFER; PARALLEL ARCHITECTURES; POPULATION STATISTICS; PROGRAM PROCESSORS; SOFTWARE DESIGN;

AGENT-BASED MODELING AND SIMULATION; AGENT-BASED MODELLING; ANOPHELES GAMBIAE MOSQUITOES; GPGPU; IMPLICATIONS FOR FUTURES; OBJECT-ORIENTED PROGRAM; OPENCL; PARALLEL ALGORITHMS AND ARCHITECTURES;

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS;

EID: 84901824166     PISSN: 07359276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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