Performance of different communication mechanisms for FEM computations on PC-based cluster with SMP nodes

Author

Olas, Tomasz ; Lacinski, Lukasz ; Karczewski, Konrad ; Tomas, Adam ; Wyrzykowski, Roman

Author_Institution

Inst. of Math. & Comput. Sci., Tech. Univ. Czestochowa, Poland

fYear

2002

fDate

2002

Firstpage

305

Lastpage

311

Abstract

ParallelNuscaS is an object-oriented package for FEM modeling on clusters, developed at the Technical University of Czestochowa. This paper is devoted to the investigation of the influence of communication mechanisms used in the ACCORD cluster on performance of FEM computations. Last year this cluster was built in the Institute of Mathematics and Computer Science of this University At present, ACCORD contains 18 Pentium III 750 MHz processors, or 9 SMP nodes, connected both by the fast MYRINET network and standard Fast Ethernet, as well as 8 SMP nodes with 16 AMD Athlon MP 1.2 GHZ processors, connected only by the Fast Ethernet.

Keywords

finite element analysis; object-oriented programming; parallel programming; software packages; workstation clusters; ACCORD cluster; FEM modeling; Fast Ethernet; ParallelNuscaS; clusters of workstations; object-oriented package; Coherence; Computer science; Ethernet networks; Hardware; Mathematics; Message passing; Object oriented modeling; Parallel processing; Protocols; Yarn;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Parallel Computing in Electrical Engineering, 2002. PARELEC '02. Proceedings. International Conference on

Print_ISBN

0-7695-1730-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PCEE.2002.1115278

Filename

1115278