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.