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Porting Industrial Codes on High-Performance Computers

and distributed computing using PVM

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High Performance Computing in Fluid Dynamics

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Abstract

We address the main issues when porting existing codes from serial to parallel computers and when developing portable parallel software on MIMD multiprocessors (shared memory, virtual shared memory, distributed memory multiprocessors, and networks of computers). We especially address distributed/heterogeneous computing on multiprocessors and networks of computers using the PVM programming environment.

We illustrate this by using examples from our experience in porting industrial codes and in designing parallel numerical libraries. We report in some detail on the optimization and the parallelization of scientific applications coming from Centre National d’Etudes Spatiales, from Aerospatiale, and from the ESPRIT III EUROPORT-1 ‘PARALLEL AERO’ project.

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    P. Wesseling

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Amestoy, P.R., Daydé, M.J. (1996). Porting Industrial Codes on High-Performance Computers. In: Wesseling, P. (eds) High Performance Computing in Fluid Dynamics. ERCOFTAC Series, vol 3. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-0271-8_3

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