Run-time parallelization of large FEM analyses with PERMAS

Advances in Engineering Software

Volumn 29, Issue 3-6, 1998, Pages 241-248

  Ast, M ^a   Fischer, R ^a   Labarta, J ^b   Manz, H ^a  

^a INTES Ingenieurgesellschaft Tech S   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Dynamic task graph; Finite element analysis; Hyper matrix; PERMAS; Run time parallelization

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER AIDED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; COMPUTER PROGRAMMING; DATA STRUCTURES; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; GRAPH THEORY; MATRIX ALGEBRA;

DYNAMIC TASK GRAPH; RUN TIME PARALLELIZATION; SOFTWARE PACKAGE PERMAS; SOFTWARE PACKAGE PTM;

PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 0032041172     PISSN: 09659978     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0965-9978(98)00010-6     Document Type: Article

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