Accelerating geocomputation with cloud computing

Modern accelerator technologies for geographic information science

Volumn 9781461487456, Issue , 2013, Pages 41-51

  Huang, Qunying ^a   Li, Zhenlong ^b   Xia, Jizhe ^b   Jiang, Yunfeng ^b   Xu, Chen ^b   Liu, Kai ^b   Yu, Manzhu ^b   Yang, Chaowei ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

CyberGIS; Field programmable gate array (FPGA); Geosciences; Many integrated core (MIC); Parallel computing; Spatial computing

Indexed keywords

BIG DATA; FIELD PROGRAMMABLE GATE ARRAYS (FPGA); GEOLOGY;

CLOUD-COMPUTING; CYBERGIS; FIELD PROGRAMMABLES; FIELD-PROGRAMMABLE GATE ARRAY; GEOSCIENCES; INTEGRATED CORE; MANY INTEGRATED CORE; PARALLEL COM- PUTING; PROGRAMMABLE GATE ARRAY; SPATIAL COMPUTING;

CLOUD COMPUTING;

EID: 84929864063     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4614-8745-6_4     Document Type: Chapter

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