Parallelization of a multiregion flow and transport code using software emulated global shared memory and high performance FORTRAN

Conference · Sat Feb 01 04:00:00 EST 1997

OSTI ID:453744

D`Azevedo, E F; Gwo, Jin-Ping

The objectives of this research are (1) to parallelize a suite of multiregion groundwater flow and solute transport codes that use Galerkin and Lagrangian- Eulerian finite element methods, (2) to test the compatibility of a global shared memory emulation software with a High Performance FORTRAN (HPF) compiler, and (3) to obtain performance characteristics and scalability of the parallel codes. The suite of multiregion flow and transport codes, 3DMURF and 3DMURT, were parallelized using the DOLIB shared memory emulation, in conjunction with the PGI HPF compiler, to run on the Intel Paragons at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) and a network of workstations. The novelty of this effort is first in the use of HPF and global shared memory emulation concurrently to facilitate the conversion of a serial code to a parallel code, and secondly the shared memory library enables efficient implementation of Lagrangian particle tracking along flow characteristics. The latter allows long-time-step-size simulation with particle tracking and dynamic particle redistribution for load balancing, thereby reducing the number of time steps needed for most transient problems. The parallel codes were applied to a pumping well problem to test the efficiency of the domain decomposition and particle tracking algorithms. The full problem domain consists of over 200,000 degrees of freedom with highly nonlinear soil property functions. Relatively good scalability was obtained for a preliminary test run on the Intel Paragons at the Center for Computational Sciences (CCS), ORNL. However, due to the difficulties we encountered in the PGI HPF compiler, as of the writing of this manuscript we are able to report results from 3DMURF only.

• Research Organization: Oak Ridge National Lab., TN (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE Office of Energy Research, Washington, DC (United States)
• DOE Contract Number: AC05-96OR22464
• OSTI ID: 453744
• Report Number(s): CONF-970430--4; ON: DE97003338
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES
99 GENERAL AND MISCELLANEOUS
DISTRIBUTED DATA PROCESSING
FINITE ELEMENT METHOD
FLOW MODELS
FLUID FLOW
FORTRAN
GROUND WATER
PARALLEL PROCESSING
PERFORMANCE