Levy-flight cellular automata on the IBM RISC-6000 workstation

Author

Betello, G. ; Succi, S.

Author_Institution

IBM-ECSEC-Eur. Center for Sci. & Eng. Comput., Rome, Italy

fYear

1991

fDate

13-16 May 1991

Firstpage

695

Lastpage

700

Abstract

In view of the importance of CA (cellular automata) as prototypes of massively parallel architectures (for which locality is an essential ingredient), it is of interest to understand the impact of the nonlocal part of the dynamics on the overall performance of the LFLG (Levy-flight lattice gas) algorithm. All computations presented pertain to the implementation on an IBM RISC-6000 model 530 workstation. This machine belongs to the family of superscalar architectures, in which the parallelism is implemented at the instruction level. Single workstation performance is presented

Keywords

IBM computers; finite automata; lattice theory and statistics; parallel architectures; physics computing; reduced instruction set computing; workstations; IBM RISC-6000 workstation; LFLG algorithms; Levy-flight lattice gas; cellular automata; instruction level; locality; massively parallel architectures; model 530; parallelism; superscalar architectures; workstation performance; Automata; Computational modeling; Concrete; Fluid flow; Geometry; Lattices; Navier-Stokes equations; Numerical models; Viscosity; Workstations;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

CompEuro '91. Advanced Computer Technology, Reliable Systems and Applications. 5th Annual European Computer Conference. Proceedings.

Conference_Location

Bologna

Print_ISBN

0-8186-2141-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CMPEUR.1991.257474

Filename

257474