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Parallel finite element computations on a network using NCS
Author(s) -
Bertrand F. H.,
Tanguy P. A.
Publication year - 1992
Publication title -
aiche journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.958
H-Index - 167
eISSN - 1547-5905
pISSN - 0001-1541
DOI - 10.1002/aic.690380211
Subject(s) - computer science , parallel computing , workstation , finite element method , computation , computational science , homogeneous , software , simple (philosophy) , distributed computing , algorithm , engineering , operating system , mathematics , philosophy , structural engineering , epistemology , combinatorics
Research has been carried out on the use of NCS (Network Computing System) to distribute the processing of a finite element application to multiple computers at once. Coarse‐grained parallelism of specific routines on loosely coupled CPUs has been implemented and tested. In a step‐by‐step fashion, the method of using NCS to convert finite element software POLY2D is explained for its application in parallel computing resources throughout a network. For the modeling of a simple conductive heat transfer problem, the distributed version of POLY2D on a homogeneous token ring network of nine Apollo workstations is used. Some timings given are compared to those obtained from a standard nondistributed simulation.