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" Specialising Simulator Generators for High-Performance Monte-Carlo Methods "
Gabriele Keller Affiliation: Programming Languages and Systems, School of Computer Science and Engineering, University of New South Wales,
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786691
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b606707
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Gabriele Keller Affiliation: Programming Languages and Systems, School of Computer Science and Engineering, University of New South Wales,
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Specialising Simulator Generators for High-Performance Monte-Carlo Methods\ Gabriele Keller Affiliation: Programming Languages and Systems, School of Computer Science and Engineering, University of New South Wales,
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9783540774419
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: 9783540774426
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This work was funded by the UNSW FRGP <i>High Performance Parallel Computing for Complex Polymer Architecture Design.</i>
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We address the tension between software generality and performance in the domain of simulations based on Monte-Carlo methods. We simultaneously achieve generality and high performance by a novel development methodology and software architecture centred around the concept of a <i>specialising simulator generator.</i> Our approach combines and extends methods from functional programming, generative programming, partial evaluation, and runtime code generation. We also show how to generate parallelised simulators.<br>We evaluated our approach by implementing a simulator for advanced forms of polymerisation kinetics. We achieved unprecedented performance, making Monte-Carlo methods practically useful in an area that was previously dominated by deterministic PDE solvers. This is of high practical relevance, as Monte-Carlo simulations can provide detailed microscopic information that cannot be obtained with deterministic solvers.
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QA76.7G337 9999
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Christopher Barner-Kowollik Affiliation: Centre for Advanced Macromolecular Design, School of Chemical Sciences and Engineering, University of New South Wales,
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Don Stewart Affiliation: Programming Languages and Systems, School of Computer Science and Engineering, University of New South Wales,
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Gabriele Keller Affiliation: Programming Languages and Systems, School of Computer Science and Engineering, University of New South Wales,
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Hugh Chaffey-Millar Affiliation: Centre for Advanced Macromolecular Design, School of Chemical Sciences and Engineering, University of New South Wales,
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Manuel M T Chakravarty Affiliation: Programming Languages and Systems, School of Computer Science and Engineering, University of New South Wales,
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