Finite element electromagnetic field computation on the Sequent Symmetry 81 parallel computer
- Dept. of Engineering, Harvey Mudd College, Claremont, CA (US)
Finite element field analysis algorithms lend themselves to parallelization and this fact is exploited in this paper to implement a finite element analysis program for electromagnetic field computation on the Sequent Symmetry 81 parallel computer with three processors. In terms of waiting time, the maximum gains are to be made in matrix solution and therefore this paper concentrates on the gains in parallelizing the solution part of finite element analysis. An outline of how parallelization could be exploited in most finite element operations is given in this paper although the actual implemention of parallelism on the Sequent Symmetry 81 parallel computer was in sparsity computation, matrix assembly and the matrix solution areas. In all cases, the algorithms were modified suit the parallel programming application rather than allowing the compiler to parallelize on existing algorithms.
- OSTI ID:
- 6357013
- Journal Information:
- IEEE Transactions on Magnetics (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers); (USA), Journal Name: IEEE Transactions on Magnetics (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers); (USA) Vol. 26:2; ISSN IEMGA; ISSN 0018-9464
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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