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Title: Scaling and performance of a 3-D radiation hydrodynamics code on message-passing parallel computers: final report

Technical Report ·
DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/15013104· OSTI ID:15013104

This report details an investigation into the efficacy of two approaches to solving the radiation diffusion equation within a radiation hydrodynamic simulation. Because leading-edge scientific computing platforms have evolved from large single-node vector processors to parallel aggregates containing tens to thousands of individual CPU's, the ability of an algorithm to maintain high compute efficiency when distributed over a large array of nodes is critically important. The viability of an algorithm thus hinges upon the tripartite question of numerical accuracy, total time to solution, and parallel efficiency.

Research Organization:
Lawrence Livermore National Lab. (LLNL), Livermore, CA (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE
DOE Contract Number:
W-7405-ENG-48
OSTI ID:
15013104
Report Number(s):
UCRL-CR-136348; TRN: US200802%%1202
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English