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In this chapter we report some results from the EUROPORT project EUROPENGER-FEDEM and a porting project on a Cray T3E, and discuss the opportunities and problems involved in the parallelization of large industrial simulation codes in mechanical engineering. We give a brief presentation of the FEDEM code (Finite Element Dynamics in Elastic Mechanisms), which is a multi-disciplinary, multibody simulation package for mechanical systems, and discuss the parallelization work. Real-world test problems have been provided by three end-users of the FEDEM code; we discuss some results from the benchmarking.
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Marthinsen, A., Sivertsen, O.I. (1998). Parallelization of Large Mechanical Engineering Codes. In: Angeles, J., Zakhariev, E. (eds) Computational Methods in Mechanical Systems. NATO ASI Series, vol 161. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-03729-4_15
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