Title :
Distributed computation of wave propagation models using PVM
Author :
Wing, R.E. ; Mitchum, D. ; Leary, P.O. ; Sharpley, R.C. ; Sochacki, J.S.
Author_Institution :
Inst. for Sci. Comput., Texas A&M Univ., College Station, TX, USA
Abstract :
PVM is an inexpensive, but extremely effective tool which allows a researcher to use workstations as nodes in a parallel processing environment to perform large-scale computations. The numerical approximation and visualization of seismic waves propagating in the Earth strains today´s largest supercomputers. Timings and visualization are presented for large Earth models run on a ring of IBM RS/6000s which illustrate PVM´s capability of handling large-scale problems.
Keywords :
distributed memory systems; geophysics computing; parallel processing; seismic waves; virtual machines; wave propagation; Earth; IBM RS/6000s; PVM; Parallel Virtual Machine; distributed computation; handling large-scale problems; large-scale computations; nodes; numerical approximation; parallel processing environment; seismic waves; supercomputers; timings; visualization; wave propagation models; workstations; Capacitive sensors; Concurrent computing; Distributed computing; Earth; Large-scale systems; Parallel processing; Seismic waves; Supercomputers; Visualization; Workstations;
Conference_Titel :
Supercomputing '93. Proceedings
Print_ISBN :
0-8186-4340-4
DOI :
10.1109/SUPERC.1993.1263453
