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UG 4: A novel flexible software system for simulating PDE based models on high performance computers

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In this paper we describe the concept of the renewed software package UG, that is used as a flexible simulation framework for the solution of partial differential equations. A general overview of the concepts of the new implementation is given: The modularization of the software package into several libraries libGrid, libAlgebra, libDiscretization and pcl is described and all major modules are discussed in detail. User backends through scripting and visual editing are briefly considered and examples show the new features of the current implementation.

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This work has been supported by the Goethe Universität Frankfurt, the German Ministry of Economy and Technology (BMWi) via grant 02E10568, the German Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) via grant 02E10326 and 01IH08014A, and the DFG by grants No. WI 1037/24-1 and WI 1037/25-1. The authors gratefully acknowledge the Gauss Centre for Supercomputing (GCS) for providing computing time through the John von Neumann Institute for Computing (NIC) on the GCS share of the supercomputer JUGENE at Jülich Supercomputing Centre (JSC). GCS is the alliance of the three national supercomputing centres HLRS (Universität Stuttgart), JSC (Forschungszentrum Jülich), and LRZ (Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften), funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) and the German State Ministries for Research of Baden-Württemberg (MWK), Bayern (StMWFK) and Nordrhein-Westfalen (MIWF).

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    Andreas Vogel, Sebastian Reiter, Martin Rupp, Arne Nägel & Gabriel Wittum

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Vogel, A., Reiter, S., Rupp, M. et al. UG 4: A novel flexible software system for simulating PDE based models on high performance computers. Comput. Visual Sci. 16, 165–179 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00791-014-0232-9

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Keywords

  • Simulation framework
  • Unstructured grids
  • Multigrid
  • Parallelization