Early Results From the Porting of the Computational Fluid Dynamics Code, F3D, to the Silicon Graphics Power Challenge

Abstract

This report briefly discusses some of the issues involved in porting a computationally intensive code from a Cray vector supercomputer to the Silicon Graphics (SGI) Power Challenge (75-MHz Mips R8000-based shared memory Symmetric Multiprocessor). Additionally, some evidence is presented to indicate that similar results should be expected when taking this code to comparable boxes from other vendors (e.g., Digital Equipment, Convex, HP, or SUN). Performance results are also discussed. This discussion deals with both the highly successful nature of these results in terms of absolute levels of performance and the even more impressive results in terms of cost effective performance. This report concludes with some thoughts on the future of this project.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 01, 1997
Accession Number
ADA344717

Entities

People

  • Daniel M. Pressel

Organizations

  • United States Army Research Laboratory

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Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Air Force Facilities
  • Algorithms
  • Central Processing Units
  • Computational Fluid Dynamics
  • Computer Architecture
  • Computer Programming
  • Computer Science
  • Computers
  • Computing System Architectures
  • Department Of Defense
  • Dynamics
  • Fluid Dynamics
  • Graphics
  • High Performance Computing
  • Instruction Set Architecture
  • Military Research

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  • Computational Modeling and Simulation
  • Parallel and Distributed Computing.
  • Theoretical Analysis.