Improving Unstructured Mesh Partitions for Multiple Criteria Using Mesh Adjacencies
- Rensselaer Polytechnic Inst., Troy, NY (United States). Scientific Computation Research Center (SCOREC); Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
- Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO (United States); Cenaero, Gosselies (Belgium)
- Rensselaer Polytechnic Inst., Troy, NY (United States). Scientific Computation Research Center (SCOREC)
- Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO (United States)
The scalability of unstructured mesh based applications depends on partitioning methods that quickly balance the computational work while reducing communication costs. Zhou et al. [SIAM J. Sci. Comput., 32 (2010), pp. 3201{3227; J. Supercomput., 59 (2012), pp. 1218{1228] demonstrated the combination of (hyper)graph methods with vertex and element partition improvement for PHASTA CFD scaling to hundreds of thousands of processes. Our work generalizes partition improvement to support balancing combinations of all the mesh entity dimensions (vertices, edges, faces, regions) in partitions with imbalances exceeding 70%. Improvement results are then presented for multiple entity dimensions on up to one million processes on meshes with over 12 billion tetrahedral elements.
- Research Organization:
- Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States). Argonne Leadership Computing Facility (ALCF); Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), Livermore, CA (United States). Frameworks, Algorithms, and Scalable Technologies for Mathematics (FASTMath)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), Advanced Scientific Computing Research (ASCR) (SC-21); Rensselaer Polytechnic Inst., Troy, NY (United States); Simmetrix Inc., Clifton Park, NY (United States)
- Grant/Contract Number:
- SC0013919
- OSTI ID:
- 1438033
- Journal Information:
- SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing, Journal Name: SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing Journal Issue: 1 Vol. 40; ISSN 1064-8275
- Publisher:
- SIAMCopyright Statement
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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