Using the Common Component Architecture to design high performance scientific simulation codes

Proceedings - International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium, IPDPS 2003

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 10-

  Lefantzi, Sophia ^a   Ray, Jaideep ^a   Najm, Habib N ^a  

^a SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Common Component Architecture (CCA); Component based software; High performance computing; Hydrodynamics; Structured Adaptive Mesh Refinement (SAMR)

Indexed keywords

HYDRODYNAMICS; INTEGRATED CIRCUIT DESIGN; PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

COMMON COMPONENT ARCHITECTURE; COMPONENT ARCHITECTURES; COMPONENT BASED SOFTWARE; HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING; INDEPENDENT COMPONENTS; MULTIPLE PROCESSORS; SCIENTIFIC SIMULATIONS; STRUCTURED ADAPTIVE MESH REFINEMENT;

COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE;

EID: 84947265683     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IPDPS.2003.1213142     Document Type: Conference Paper

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