PARALLEL IMPROVEMENT IN STRUCTURED CHIMERA GRID ASSEMBLY FOR PC CLUSTER

PC 클러스터를 위한 정렬 중첩 격자의 병렬처리

  • 김유진 (한국과학기술원, 항공우주공학) ;
  • 권장혁 (한국과학기술원, 항공우주공학)
  • Published : 2005.10.01

Abstract

Parallel implementation and performance assessment of the grid assembly in a structured chimera grid approach is studied. The grid assembly process, involving hole cutting and searching donor, is parallelized on the PC cluster. A message passing programming model based on the MPI library is implemented using the single program multiple data(SPMD) paradigm. The coarse-grained communication is optimized with the minimized memory allocation because that the parallel grid assembly can access the decomposed geometry data in other processors by only message passing in the distributed memory system such as a PC cluster. The grid assembly workload is based on the static load balancing tied to flow solver. A goal of this work is a development of parallelized grid assembly that is suited for handling multiple moving body problems with large grid size.

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