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Finite element adaptive mesh analysis using a cluster of workstations

✍ Scribed by K. P. Wang; J. C. Bruch Jr

Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
1998
Tongue
English
Weight
236 KB
Volume
27
Category
Article
ISSN
0271-2091

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✦ Synopsis

Parallel computation on clusters of workstations is becoming one of the major trends in the study of parallel computations, because of their high computing speed, cost effectiveness and scalability. This paper presents studies of using a cluster of workstations for the ®nite element adaptive mesh analysis of a free surface seepage problem. A parallel algorithm proven to be simple to implement and ef®cient is used to perform the analysis. A network of workstations is used as the hardware of a parallel system. Two parallel software packages, P4 and PVM (parallel virtual machine), are used to handle communications among networked workstations. Computational issues to be discussed are domain decomposition, load balancing, and communication time.

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