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In recent years, the demand for solving large scale scientific and engineering problems has grown enormously. Since many programs for solving these problems inherently contain a very high degree of parallelism, they can be processed very efficiently if algorithms employed therein expose the parallelism to the architecture of a supercomputer.
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Miura, K. (1990). Vectorization and Parallelization of Transport Monte Carlo Simulation Codes. In: Kowalik, J.S. (eds) Supercomputing. NATO ASI Series, vol 62. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-75771-6_21
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