Hydrocode Development on the Ncube and the Connection Machine Hypercubes [Book Chapter]

Conference · Sat Nov 16 23:00:00 EST 2013 · Shock Compression of Condensed Matter–1991

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/b978-0-444-89732-9.50066-2· OSTI ID:5617460

Robinson, Allen C. ^[1]; Vaughan, Courtenay T. ^[1]; Fang, H. Eliot ^[1]; Diegart, Carl F. ^[1]; Cho, Kah-Song ^[2]

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1. Sandia National Laboratories (SNL-NM), Albuquerque, NM (United States)
2. Thinking Machines Corporation, Cambridge, MA (United States)

Hydrocode simulations constitute an important tool at Sandia National Laboratories and elsewhere for analyzing complex two- and three-dimensional systems. However, current vector supercomputers do not provide a growth path to enable fast, routine, and cost-effective simulations of large problems. Future, massively-parallel computers will provide a solution. Sandia has already developed simplified versions of the production hydrocode CTH for the Connection Machine and the nCUBE massively-parallel supercomputers. The parallel versions solve problems in two-dimensional, multi-fluid, shock-wave physics. Code development strategy, coding methodology, visualization techniques and performance results for this work are described.

• Research Organization: Sandia National Laboratories (SNL-NM), Albuquerque, NM (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE
• DOE Contract Number: AC04-76DP00789
• OSTI ID: 5617460
• Report Number(s): SAND--91-1026C; CONF-910654--1; ON: DE91012825; ISBN: 978-0-444-89732-9
• Journal Information: Shock Compression of Condensed Matter–1991, Journal Name: Shock Compression of Condensed Matter–1991
• Publisher: Elsevier
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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97 MATHEMATICS AND COMPUTING
99 GENERAL AND MISCELLANEOUS
990200* -- Mathematics & Computers
COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE
COMPUTERIZED SIMULATION
COMPUTERS
HYPERCUBE COMPUTERS
PARALLEL PROCESSING
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