Improving the performance of a petroleum reservoir model on workstation clusters using MPI
- Univ. of Southhampton (United Kingdom)
The relatively low-performance of a petroleum reservoir model when it executes on a single workstation is one of the key motivating factors for exploiting high-performance computing on workstation clusters. Workstation clusters, connected through a Local Area Network, are at a stage where their effectiveness as a suitable configuration for high-performance parallel processing has already been established. This paper discusses the improvement in performance of an engineering application on a workstation cluster using the MPI (Message Passing Interface) software environment. The importance of this approach for many engineering and scientific applications is illustrated by the case study, which also provides a recommended porting methodology for similar applications.
- OSTI ID:
- 390776
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-960482-; TRN: 96:005003-0005
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: Society of Computer Simulation (SCS) multiconference: high performance computing, New Orleans, LA (United States), 8-11 Apr 1996; Other Information: PBD: 1996; Related Information: Is Part Of High performance computing 1996: Grand challenges in computer simulation; Tentner, A. [ed.]; PB: 443 p.
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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