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IBM Journal of Research and Development
Applications of Massively Parallel Systems   Volume 52, Number 1/2, 2008
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Blue Matter: Scaling of N-body simulations to one atom per node - References

 by B. G. Fitch,
A. Rayshubskiy,
M. Eleftheriou,
T. J. C. Ward,
M. E. Giampapa,
M. C. Pitman,
J. W. Pitera,
W. C. Swope,
and R. S. Germain
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