• DocumentCode
    120269
  • Title

    An Efficient Column-Major Ordering Format for Finite Element Analysis

  • Author

    Jin Tian ; Fei Gao ; Xiankun Sun ; Li Gong

  • Author_Institution
    Coll. of Electron. & Electr. Eng., Shanghai Univ. Of Eng. Sci., Shanghai, China
  • fYear
    2014
  • fDate
    4-6 July 2014
  • Firstpage
    562
  • Lastpage
    565
  • Abstract
    A new column-major ordering format called sliced EET is proposed to accelerate FEM analysis. The sliced EET is designed for hastening many addition and dot product steps of Sparse Matrix Vector Product (SMVP) operations in iterative calculation of finite element equations. The new implementation of SMVP on GPUs is compared with other column-major ordering formats. The proposed strategy executed on a GPU can efficiently solve sparse finite element equations.
  • Keywords
    finite element analysis; iterative methods; mathematics computing; sparse matrices; FEM analysis; GPU; SMVP; addition steps; column-major ordering format; dot product steps; sliced EET; sparse finite element equations; sparse matrix vector product operations; Joints; Optimization; Column-major Ordering Format; Graphics Processing Unit (GPU); Sparse Matrix Vector Product (SMVP);
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Computational Sciences and Optimization (CSO), 2014 Seventh International Joint Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Beijing
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4799-5371-4
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/CSO.2014.110
  • Filename
    6923748