Dynamic load balancing for finite element calculations on parallel computers
- Weidlinger and Associates, Los Altos, CA (United States)
- Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA (United States)
- New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, NJ (United States)
Computational requirements of full scale computational fluid dynamics change as computation progresses on a parallel machine. The change in computational intensity causes workload imbalance of processors, which in turn requires a large amount of data movement at runtime. If parallel CFD is to be successful on a parallel or massively parallel machine, balancing of the runtime load is indispensable. Here a frame work is presented for dynamic load balancing for CFD applications, called Jove. One processor is designated as a decision maker Jove while others are assigned to computational fluid dynamics. Processors running CFD send flags to Jove in a predetermined number of iterations to initiate load balancing. Jove starts working on load balancing while other processors continue working with the current data and load distribution. Jove goes through several steps to decide if the new data should be taken, including preliminary evaluate, partition, processor reassignment, cost evaluation, and decision. Jove running on a single SP2 node has been completely implemented. Preliminary experimental results show that the Jove approach to dynamic load balancing can be effective for full scale grid partitioning on the target machine SP2.
- OSTI ID:
- 125584
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-950212-; CNN: Contract NAS 2-12961; TRN: 95:005768-0129
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: 7. Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) conference on parallel processing for scientific computing, San Francisco, CA (United States), 15-17 Feb 1995; Other Information: PBD: 1995; Related Information: Is Part Of Proceedings of the seventh SIAM conference on parallel processing for scientific computing; Bailey, D.H.; Bjorstad, P.E.; Gilbert, J.R. [eds.] [and others]; PB: 894 p.
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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