Heterogeneous multi-computer system: a new paradigm of parallel processing

Author

Boku, Taisuke ; Makino, Junichiro ; Susa, Hajime ; Umemura, Masayuki ; Fukushige, Toshiyuki ; Ukawa, Akira

Author_Institution

Inst. of Inf. Sci. & Electron., Tsukuba Univ., Ibaraki, Japan

fYear

2002

fDate

2002

Firstpage

3

Lastpage

8

Abstract

HMCS (Heterogeneous Multi-Computer System) is a new parallel processing platform combining massively parallel processors for continuum simulation and particle simulation to realize multi-scale computational physics simulations. We constructed a prototype system of HMCS with a general purpose scientific parallel processor CP-PACS and a gravity calculation parallel processor GRAPE-6 connecting them via commodity-base parallel network. On the prototype of HMCS, a microscopic gravity calculation on GRAPE-6 and a macroscopic radiation hydrodynamics calculation on CP-PACS are performed simultaneously to realize detailed simulation on computational astrophysics. In this paper we report the overall concept, design and implementation of HMCS as well as the result of a novel computational simulation for galaxy formation.

Keywords

astronomy computing; digital simulation; gravity; hydrodynamics; parallel machines; physics computing; radiation; CP-PACS; GRAPE-6; HMCS; computational astrophysics simulation; continuum simulation; gravity calculation parallel processor; heterogeneous multicomputer system; macroscopic radiation hydrodynamics calculation; massively parallel processors; microscopic gravity calculation; multiscale computational physics simulations; parallel processing; particle simulation; Computational modeling; Concurrent computing; Gravity; Joining processes; Microscopy; Parallel processing; Physics computing; Pipelines; Prototypes; Virtual prototyping;

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.2002.1115187

Filename

1115187