Parallel computing of Numerical Manifold Method with OpenMP

This paper introduced a parallel implementation of numerical manifold method based on multiprocessor platforms. First, the computing performance for a class of rock engineering problems was analyzed. For solving simultaneous equations is the most time consuming, we choose parallelized Jacobi´s iterative method to speed up the computing process. The implementation of parallel Jacobi´s iterative method with OpenMP was introduced. A series of experiments shows that our parallel algorithm is an effective way to improve computing performance for such class of engineering problems.