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Program structure and architecture for a finite element machine

✍ Scribed by D. H. Norrie; C. I. W. Norrie

Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
Year: 1986
Tongue: English
Weight: 584 KB
Volume: 22
Category: Article
ISSN: 0029-5981
DOI: 10.1002/nme.1620220118

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✦ Synopsis

Superproblems in finite elements require either general-purpose or special-purpose computing machines whose capabilities are very much greater than those currently existing. The advantage of the latter type of machine is that it can be highly optimized for the particular class of problem for which it is designed and can, in principle, for a given generation of hardware, be designed to operate at a higher speed than a corresponding general-purpose computer. The Parallel Finite Element Machine (PARFEM) investigated at the University of Calgary has an architecture based on the finite element computational algorithms and employs a combination of parallel and vector processing. The overall architecture and program structure is described and the major design considerations outlined.

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