A prototype scalable, object-oriented finite element solver on multicomputers

DOI10.1006/JPDC.1994.1033MaRDI QIDQ1325993zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Joe Schmidt, Dennis Yelton, Graham F. Carey, Vineet Kumar Singh

Publication date 11 December 1994

Published in Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1006/jpdc.1994.1033

zbMATH Keywords

multicomputersobject-oriented languageparallel finite element solver

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Boundary value problems for second-order elliptic equations (35J25) Finite element, Rayleigh-Ritz and Galerkin methods for boundary value problems involving PDEs (65N30) Parallel numerical computation (65Y05) Numerical algorithms for specific classes of architectures (65Y10)

Review text

The authors investigate a prototype parallel finite element solver for mesh-connected multicomputers (message-passing, distributed-memory multiprocessors). The algorithms are written in an object-oriented language (ESP \(\text{C}_ ++\)). Experimental data are collected for a sample problem on a Motorola multicomputer, an MCC ES-Kit multicomputer and Sun workstations on an Ethernet. The data bear out the theoretical predictions that the solution is highly scalable on mesh-connected multicomputers and somewhat less scalable on workstations connected to an Ethernet.

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