Efficient optimization algorithms for parallel applications

8th Symposium on Multidisciplinary Analysis and Optimization

Volumn , Issue , 2000, Pages

  Venter, Gerhard ^a   Watson, Brian ^a  

^a Vanderplaats Research and Development Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DESIGN OF EXPERIMENTS; EFFICIENCY; LINEAR PROGRAMMING; MEMORY ARCHITECTURE;

GRADIENT BASED ALGORITHM; NUMERICAL OPTIMIZATION ALGORITHMS; OPTIMIZATION ALGORITHMS; PARALLEL OPTIMIZATION; SEQUENTIAL LINEAR PROGRAMMING; SHARED MEMORY ARCHITECTURE; STATISTICAL DESIGN OF EXPERIMENTS; STRUCTURAL FINITE ELEMENTS;

PARALLEL ARCHITECTURES;

EID: 85085776530     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2514/6.2000-4819     Document Type: Conference Paper

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