Exploring weak scalability for FEM calculations on a GPU-enhanced cluster

Parallel Computing

Volumn 33, Issue 10-11, 2007, Pages 685-699

  Göddeke, Dominik ^a   Strzodka, Robert ^b   Mohd Yusof, Jamaludin ^c   McCormick, Patrick ^c   Buijssen, Sven H M ^a   Grajewski, Matthias ^a   Turek, Stefan ^a  

^a TU DORTMUND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Commodity based clusters; Finite elements; Graphics processors; Heterogeneous computing; Parallel multigrid solvers

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTATION THEORY; ENERGY UTILIZATION;

COMMODITY BASED CLUSTERS; GRAPHICS PROCESSING UNITS (GPU); GRAPHICS PROCESSORS; HETEROGENEOUS COMPUTING; PARALLEL MULTIGRID SOLVERS;

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD;

EID: 35748969304     PISSN: 01678191     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.parco.2007.09.002     Document Type: Article

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