A new parallel simulation technique

DOI10.1016/J.JCP.2011.08.029zbMATH Open1243.83063arXiv1011.4046OpenAlexW1973684561MaRDI QIDQ425606FDOQ425606

Authors: Jose J. Blanco-Pillado, Ken D. Olum, Benjamin Shlaer 

Publication date: 8 June 2012

Published in: Journal of Computational Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We develop a "semi-parallel" simulation technique suggested by Pretorius and Lehner, in which the simulation spacetime volume is divided into a large number of small 4-volumes which have only initial and final surfaces. Thus there is no two-way communication between processors, and the 4-volumes can be simulated independently without the use of MPI. This technique allows us to simulate much larger volumes than we otherwise could, because we are not limited by total memory size. No processor time is lost waiting for other processors. We compare a cosmic string simulation we developed using the semi-parallel technique with our previous MPI-based code for several test cases and find a factor of 2.6 improvement in the total amount of processor time required to accomplish the same job for strings evolving in the matter-dominated era.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1011.4046

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zbMATH Keywords

simulationparallel processingcosmic stringsMPI-based code

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems) (83C05) String and superstring theories in gravitational theory (83E30) Relativistic cosmology (83F05) Computational methods for problems pertaining to relativity and gravitational theory (83-08)

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• Accretion onto oscillating cosmic string loops
• Parallel simulation today
• New type of string solutions with long range forces
• Probing the pre-BBN universe with gravitational waves from cosmic strings

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