Author :
Feo, J. ; Kahan, Simon ; Wu, Zhijun
Author_Institution :
Tera Comput. Co., Seattle, WA, USA
Abstract :
Programs that simulate complex-structure deformation scale poorly on most vector multiprocessors and MPPs. The authors worked on an alternative architecture-the Tera MTA-and tested performance results for a model crash problem using LS-DYNA code.
Keywords :
accidents; finite element analysis; mechanical engineering computing; multi-threading; parallel architectures; performance evaluation; shared memory systems; traffic engineering computing; LS-DYNA code; MPP; Tera MTA; complex-structure deformation; crash analysis; finite element analysis; multithreaded architecture; performance; shared memory systems; simulation; vector multiprocessors; Computer crashes; Deformable models; Vehicle crash testing;
Journal_Title :
Computational Science & Engineering, IEEE
