DocumentCode
801436
Title
A Massively Parallel Multigrid Method for Finite Elements
Author
Bergen, Benjamin ; Gradl, Tobias ; Hülsemann, Frank ; Rüde, Ulrich
Volume
8
Issue
6
fYear
2006
Firstpage
56
Lastpage
62
Abstract
The hierarchical hybrid grid framework supports the parallel implementation of multigrid solvers for finite element problems. Specifically, it generates extremely fine meshes by using a structured refinement of an unstructured base mesh. For special problems with piecewise uniform material parameters, this leads to the possibility of stencil-based operations, which save substantial memory and permit a very efficient implementation of the multigrid method
Keywords
differential equations; finite element analysis; finite element problems; parallel multigrid method; stencil-based operations; Application software; Arithmetic; Concurrent computing; Costs; Finite element methods; Mesh generation; Multigrid methods; Partial differential equations; Scalability; Supercomputers; algebraic multigrid; multigrid;
fLanguage
English
Journal_Title
Computing in Science & Engineering
Publisher
ieee
ISSN
1521-9615
Type
jour
DOI
10.1109/MCSE.2006.102
Filename
1717316
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