The communication performance of the Cray T3D and its effect on iterative solvers

Parallel Computing

Volumn 22, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 829-844

  Hu, Y F ^a   Emerson, D R ^a   Blake, R J ^a  

^a DARESBURY LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Communication requirements; Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD); Cray T3D; Distributed memory system; Iterative solvers; Multigrid algorithm

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BANDWIDTH; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; ITERATIVE METHODS; LARGE SCALE SYSTEMS; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

COMMUNICATION ROUTINES; CRAY T3D; DISTRIBUTED MEMORY SYSTEMS; LARGE LINEAR SYSTEMS; MULTIGRID ALGORITHM;

DATA COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 0030244548     PISSN: 01678191     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0167-8191(96)00035-X     Document Type: Article

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