Title :
The Limits of Reproducibility in Numerical Simulation
Author_Institution :
Gesellschaft fur Numerische Simulation (GNS), Braunschweig, Germany
Abstract :
Modern computational simulation´s increasing and mainly speed-oriented use of HPC systems often conflicts with the goal of making research reproducible. Indeed, the simulations that result from HPC use often behave reproducibly in only a limited way As a discussion of this phenomenon´s technical background describes, the problems entailed will be very difficult to overcome.
Keywords :
distributed processing; numerical analysis; HPC systems; computational simulation; numerical simulation; reproducibility limits; Computational modeling; High performance computing; Numerical simulation; Parallel processing; Scientific computing; Parallel algorithms; numerical analysis; scientific computing;
Journal_Title :
Computing in Science & Engineering
DOI :
10.1109/MCSE.2011.21