Scalable Simulations of Penetration Mechanics on the SGI Origin 3800 and the IBM SP Power3 Computer Systems

Abstract

This report presents an overview of an explicit message-passing paradigm for an Eulerian finite volume method for modeling solid dynamics problems involving shock wave propagation, multiple materials, and large deformations. Three-dimensional simulations of high velocity impact were conducted on the SGI Origin 3800 and the IBM SP Power3 computer systems. The scalability of the message-passing code on these architectures is presented and compared to the ideal linear multiple processor performance.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 01, 2001
Accession Number
ADA392370

Entities

People

  • Kent D. Kimsey
  • Stephen J. Schraml
  • Thomas M. Kendall

Organizations

  • United States Army Research Laboratory

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Computer Programming
  • Computers
  • Dynamics
  • Engineering
  • Equations
  • Explosive Charges
  • High Performance Computing
  • Materials
  • Mechanics
  • Military Research
  • Operating Systems
  • Scalability
  • Shock
  • Shock Waves
  • Simulations
  • Three Dimensional
  • Wave Propagation

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Fluid Dynamics.
  • Munitions and Ordnance Engineering
  • Software Engineering.