A highly scalable massively parallel fast marching method for the eikonal equation

DOI10.1016/J.JCP.2016.12.012zbMATH Open1380.65329arXiv1502.07303OpenAlexW1581532933MaRDI QIDQ680108FDOQ680108

Authors: Frederick Stern, Jianming Yang 

Publication date: 22 January 2018

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

Abstract: The fast marching method is a widely used numerical method for solving the Eikonal equation arising from a variety of scientific and engineering fields. It is long deemed inherently sequential and an efficient parallel algorithm applicable to large-scale practical applications is not available in the literature. In this study, we present a highly scalable massively parallel implementation of the fast marching method using a domain decomposition approach. Central to this algorithm is a novel restarted narrow band approach that coordinates the frequency of communications and the amount of computations extra to a sequential run for achieving an unprecedented parallel performance. Within each restart, the narrow band fast marching method is executed; simple synchronous local exchanges and global reductions are adopted for communicating updated data in the overlapping regions between neighboring subdomains and getting the latest front status, respectively. The independence of front characteristics is exploited through special data structures and augmented status tags to extract the masked parallelism within the fast marching method. The efficiency, flexibility, and applicability of the parallel algorithm are demonstrated through several examples. These problems are extensively tested on six grids with up to 1 billion points using different numbers of processes ranging from 1 to 65536. Remarkable parallel speedups are achieved using tens of thousands of processes. Detailed pseudo-codes for both the sequential and parallel algorithms are provided to illustrate the simplicity of the parallel implementation and its similarity to the sequential narrow band fast marching algorithm.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1502.07303

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zbMATH Keywords

parallel algorithmdomain decompositiondistance functionlevel seteikonal equationfast marching methodreinitializationmassively parallel implementationnarrow band approachstatic Hamilton-Jacobi equation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Parallel numerical computation (65Y05) Finite difference methods for boundary value problems involving PDEs (65N06)

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