Title :
Finite element calculations at the parallel computers Intel/Paragon, IBM SP-2, and a cluster of DEC-ALPHA workstations
Author :
Watermann, Astrid ; Altes, Jürgen
Author_Institution :
Inst. for Safety Res. & Reactor Technol., Forschungszentrum Julich GmbH, Germany
Abstract :
In many natural and engineering science applications, systems of partial differential equations have to be solved. The finite element method represents an effective tool to solve these systems, but a disadvantage arises due to the very high computation times regarding conventional serial computers. Therefore, the finite element code SMART has been parallelized and can now be executed on different parallel machines on which a message passing system as Intel/NX, MPI or PARMACS is available. In this paper a short overview of the parallelization strategy is given but the main focus lies on the benchmark of a given problem on different computer architectures, which shows the pros and cons of these machines as well as of parallel computing
Keywords :
finite element analysis; parallel algorithms; parallel machines; partial differential equations; Intel/NX; MPI; PARMACS; SMART; finite element method; message passing; parallel machines; parallelization strategy; partial differential equations; Application software; Computer architecture; Concurrent computing; Data structures; Finite element methods; Inductors; Message passing; Partial differential equations; Safety; Workstations;
Conference_Titel :
High Performance Computing, 1996. Proceedings. 3rd International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Trivandrum
Print_ISBN :
0-8186-7557-8
DOI :
10.1109/HIPC.1996.565801
