Publication Date:
2019-07-13
Description:
Dynamic mesh adaption on unstructured grids is a powerful tool for computing unsteady flows that require local grid modifications to efficiently resolve solution features. For this work, we consider an edge-based adaption scheme that has shown good single-processor performance on the C90. We report on our experience parallelizing this code for the SP2. Results show a 47.OX speedup on 64 processors when 10% of the mesh is randomly refined. Performance deteriorates to 7.7X when the same number of edges are refined in a highly-localized region. This is because almost all mesh adaption is confined to a single processor. However, this problem can be remedied by repartitioning the mesh immediately after targeting edges for refinement but before the actual adaption takes place. With this change, the speedup improves dramatically to 43.6X.
Keywords:
Computer Systems
Type:
NASA-TM-112033
,
NAS 1.15:112033
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NAS-96-011
,
International Workshop on Parallel Algorithms for Irregularly Structured Problems (IRREGULAR''96); Aug 19, 1996 - Aug 21, 1996; Santa Barbara, CA; United States
Format:
application/pdf
