Obtaining identical results with double precision global accuracy on different numbers of processors in parallel particle Monte Carlo simulations

DOI10.1016/J.JCP.2013.05.041zbMATH Open1349.65042OpenAlexW2079094383MaRDI QIDQ347945FDOQ347945

Authors Mathew A. Cleveland, Thomas A. Brunner, Nicholas A. Gentile, Jeffrey A. Keasler

Publication date 5 December 2016

Published in Journal of Computational Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcp.2013.05.041

zbMATH Keywords

Monte Carloparallelnumerical reproducibilitysoftware extended precision

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Monte Carlo methods (65C05) Parallel numerical computation (65Y05) Stochastic particle methods (65C35)

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• LBNL
• Kull IMC

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