{"title":"Large Scale Simulation of Suspensions with PVM","authors":"N. Phan-Thien, K. Lee, D. Tullock","doi":"10.1109/SC.1997.10050","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SC.1997.10050","url":null,"abstract":"We describe an application of an indirect boundary element method in the large scale simulation of suspensions in distributed environment with Parallel Virtual Machine (PVM). The method involves re-casting the governing (Stokes or Navier) equations in an integral form which is suitable for iterative solution. Parallelization is achieved by domain decomposition, in which the calculations on a group of particles are farmed out to a workstation in a distributed system. The actual throughput of the distributed farm, consisting of 28 DEC AlphaStations 500/266, based on a wall clock measurement and an actual floating point operation count for the serial version of the program, is 4.69 Gflops/s. This results in a price performance of 65 USD per Mflops/s.","PeriodicalId":315276,"journal":{"name":"ACM/IEEE SC 1997 Conference (SC'97)","volume":"55 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131691825","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}