Title :
Parallel boundary elements using LAPACK and ScaLAPACK
Author :
Cunha, Manoel T F ; Telles, José C F ; Coutinho, Alvaro L G A
Author_Institution :
COPPE, Univ. Fed. do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Abstract :
The work introduces the main steps towards the parallelization of existing boundary element method (BEM) codes using available standard and portable libraries for writing parallel programs, such as LAPACK and ScaLAPACK. Here, a well-known BEM Fortran implementation is reviewed and rewritten to run on shared and distributed memory systems. This effort is the initial step to develop a new generation of parallel BEM codes to be used in many important engineering problems. Numerical experiments on a SGI Origin 2000 show the effectiveness of the proposed approach.
Keywords :
FORTRAN; boundary-elements methods; distributed memory systems; mathematics computing; parallel programming; shared memory systems; software libraries; Fortran; LAPACK; SGI Origin 2000; ScaLAPACK; distributed memory systems; numerical experiments; parallel boundary element method codes; parallel programs; parallelization; portable libraries; shared memory systems; Availability; Boundary conditions; Boundary element methods; Central Processing Unit; Code standards; Integral equations; Interpolation; Laplace equations; Libraries; Writing;
Conference_Titel :
Computer Architecture and High Performance Computing, 2002. Proceedings. 14th Symposium on
Print_ISBN :
0-7695-1772-2
DOI :
10.1109/CAHPC.2002.1180759
