Title :
A portable distributed implementation of the parallel multipole tree algorithm
Author :
Rankin, William T. ; Board, John A., Jr.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. Eng., Duke Univ., Durham, NC, USA
Abstract :
Several variants of parallel multipole-based algorithms have been implemented to further research in fields such as computational chemistry and astro-physics. We present a distributed parallel implementation of a multipole-based algorithm that is portable to a wide variety of applications and parallel platforms. Performance data are presented for loosely coupled networks of workstations as well as for more tightly coupled distributed multiprocessors, demonstrating the portability and scalability of the application to large number of processors
Keywords :
astronomy computing; chemistry computing; multiprocessing systems; parallel algorithms; computational chemistry; loosely coupled networks; parallel multipole tree algorithm; portable distributed implementation; tightly coupled distributed multiprocessors; Astrochemistry; Computational modeling; Computer applications; Concurrent computing; Costs; Data structures; Fast Fourier transforms; Physics computing; Scalability; Workstations;
Conference_Titel :
High Performance Distributed Computing, 1995., Proceedings of the Fourth IEEE International Symposium on
Conference_Location :
Washington, DC
Print_ISBN :
0-8186-7088-6
DOI :
10.1109/HPDC.1995.518690
