Multi-agent systems meet gpu: Deploying agent-based architectures on graphics processors

IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology

Volumn 394, Issue , 2013, Pages 115-122

  Pavlov, Roman ^a   Müller, Jörg P ^a  

^a CLAUSTHAL UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

CUDA; GPGPU; Multi Agent Systems

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER GRAPHICS EQUIPMENT; GRAPHICS PROCESSING UNIT; PROGRAM PROCESSORS; SIMULATION PLATFORM;

AGENT BASED ARCHITECTURES; COMPUTATION-INTENSIVE ALGORITHMS; CUDA; DISTRIBUTED SOFTWARE; EXECUTION PERFORMANCE; GPGPU; LARGE SCALE SIMULATIONS; RUNTIME ENVIRONMENTS;

MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

EID: 84928226436     PISSN: 18684238     EISSN: 1868422X     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-37291-9_13     Document Type: Article

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