Parallel Computing on Various Platforms - A Case Study.

Abstract

Parallel computing offers an attractive means for high-performance computing to alleviate the current bottleneck in speedup potential of large application codes for practical problem solving. The challenge of actual implementation, however, can be significant The objective of this report is to address the issue of porting and parallelizing a Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) application code on several supercomputing platforms such as Cray C-90, Cray Y-MP, KSRl, CM-S and Intel PARAGON. This overall objective is achieved through first emulating the application code by conducting a model test code, in an effort to understand the influence of data structure on the code performance. The conclusions derived from this are then utilized to restructure the 2-D/3-D CFD code such that the final version is transportable to a wider class of platforms.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Nov 01, 1994
Accession Number
ADA289008

Entities

People

  • B. N. Srivastava

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Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Case Studies
  • Commerce
  • Computational Fluid Dynamics
  • Computer Programming
  • Computers
  • Fluid Dynamics
  • Geometry
  • High Performance Computing
  • Linear Arrays
  • Military Research
  • Model Tests
  • Molecular Dynamics
  • Parallel Computing
  • Parallel Processing
  • Platforms
  • Three Dimensional
  • Two Dimensional

Fields of Study

  • Computer science
  • Engineering

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  • Parallel and Distributed Computing.
  • Systems Analysis and Design