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Parallelising Computational Microstructure Simulations for Metallic Materials with OpenMP

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OpenMP in the Petascale Era (IWOMP 2011)

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This work focuses on the OpenMP parallelisation of an iterative linear equation solver and parallel usage of an explicit solver for the nonlinear phase-field equations. Both solvers are used in microstructure evolution simulations based on the phase-field method. For the latter one, we compare a graph based solution using OpenMP tasks to a first-come-first-serve scheduling using an OpenMP critical section. We discuss how the task solution might benefit from the introduction of OpenMP task dependencies. The concepts are implemented in the software MICRESS which is mainly used by material engineers for the simulation of the evolving material microstructure during processing.

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  1. Center for Computing and Communication, JARA–HPC, RWTH Aachen University, Germany

    Ralph Altenfeld, Dieter an Mey & Christian Bischof

  2. ACCESS e.V., RWTH Aachen University, Germany

    Markus Apel, Bernd Böttger & Stefan Benke

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  1. Dept. of Computer Science, University of Houston, 501 Philip G. Hoffman Hall, 4800 Calhoun Rd, 77204-3475, Houston, TX, USA

    Barbara M. Chapman

  2. Dept. of Computer Sci., Univ. of Illinois, 61801, Urbana, Illinois, USA

    William D. Gropp

  3. Argonne National Laboratory, TCS, Bldg 240, Rm 1125, 9700 S. Cass Avenue, 60439, Argonne, IL, USA

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  4. Center for Information Services and High Performance Computing (ZIH), Technische Universität Dresden, Zellescher Weg 12, 01062, Dresden, Germany

    Matthias S. Müller

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Altenfeld, R., Apel, M., an Mey, D., Böttger, B., Benke, S., Bischof, C. (2011). Parallelising Computational Microstructure Simulations for Metallic Materials with OpenMP. In: Chapman, B.M., Gropp, W.D., Kumaran, K., Müller, M.S. (eds) OpenMP in the Petascale Era. IWOMP 2011. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6665. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-21487-5_1

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