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Platform independent, efficient implementation of the Ising Model on parallel acceleration devices

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In this paper we present a versatile and scalable simulation code for the two- and three dimensional Ising model which can be used across different parallel acceleration frameworks (CUDA, OpenCL, OpenMP, MPI).

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Block, B.J. Platform independent, efficient implementation of the Ising Model on parallel acceleration devices. Eur. Phys. J. Spec. Top. 210, 147–157 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1140/epjst/e2012-01643-x

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