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The computational requirements of cloth and other non-rigid solids simulations are high and often the run time is far from real time simulations. In this paper, we present an efficient parallel solution of the problem, which is a consequence of a comprehensive analysis of the data distributions and the parallel behavior of various iterative system solvers and preconditioners. Our parallel code combines data parallelism with task parallelism, achieving a good load balancing and minimizing the communication cost. The execution time obtained for a typical problem size, its superlinear speed-up, and the isoscalability shown by the model, will allow to reach real-time simulations in sceneries of growing complexity, using the most powerful parallel computers.
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Romero, S., Romero, L.F., Zapata, E.L. (2001). Parallel Algorithm for Fast Cloth Simulation. In: Palma, J.M.L.M., Dongarra, J., Hernández, V. (eds) Vector and Parallel Processing — VECPAR 2000. VECPAR 2000. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1981. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-44942-6_43
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