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Scalable heterogeneous parallelism for atmospheric modeling and simulation

John C. Linford, Adrian Sandu
Department of Computer Science, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 2202 Kraft Dr., Blacksburg, VA 24061
The Journal of Supercomputing, Volume 56, Number 3, 300-327, 2011

@article{linford2011scalable,

   title={Scalable heterogeneous parallelism for atmospheric modeling and simulation},

   author={Linford, J.C. and Sandu, A.},

   journal={The Journal of Supercomputing},

   volume={56},

   number={3},

   pages={300–327},

   year={2011},

   publisher={Springer}

}

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