Title :
The Permpar project
Author_Institution :
Intes GmbHand, Stuttgart, Germany
Abstract :
Numerical simulation is one of the areas where highly parallel computers will most likely be used extensively in the near future. However, most of the simulation software systems on the market today have been developed continuously over the past two decades and were designed with sequential computer architectures in mind. On the other hand, the investment in these codes is so large that complete redesign is not possible. The Commission of the European Communities has funded the Europort project with the goal of supporting the migration of existing and industrially relevant software to highly parallel computer architectures. Permpar is one of these projects. The two-year project, begun in January 1994, has adopted the general-purpose finite-element program Permas to meet its software requirements
Keywords :
digital simulation; finite element analysis; mathematics computing; parallel processing; software portability; Commission of the European Communities; Europort project; Permas; Permpar; Permpar project; general-purpose finite-element program; highly parallel computer architectures; highly parallel computers; investment; numerical simulation; sequential computer architectures; simulation software systems; software requirements; Computational modeling; Computer architecture; Computer industry; Computer simulation; Concurrent computing; Data structures; Distributed decision making; Investments; Processor scheduling; Software performance;
Journal_Title :
Computational Science & Engineering, IEEE
