Scalable adaptive mantle convection simulation on petascale supercomputers

2008 SC - International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis, SC 2008

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages

  Burstedde, Carsten ^a   Ghattas, Omar ^a   Gurnis, Michael ^b   Stadler, Georg ^a   Tan, Eh ^c   Tu, Tiankai ^a   Wilcox, Lucas C ^a   Zhong, Shijie ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE CAPABILITIES; ADAPTIVE MESH REFINEMENT; ADAPTIVE MESHES; ARBITRARY GEOMETRY; ARBITRARY ORDER; DISCONTINUOUS GALERKIN; DISTRIBUTED DATA STRUCTURES; ENERGY EQUATION; FINITE ELEMENT; GEOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; LAGRANGE ELEMENTS; LOW ORDER; MANTLE CONVECTION; NON-NEWTONIAN FLUIDS; OCTREE MESH; PETAFLOPS; PETASCALE; PLATE BOUNDARIES; RAYLEIGH; REBALANCING; THREE ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE; UNIFORM RESOLUTION;

COMPUTER SCIENCE; DATA STRUCTURES; ELECTRIC MEASURING INSTRUMENTS; GALERKIN METHODS; SUPERCOMPUTERS; WATER METERS;

PARALLEL ALGORITHMS;

EID: 70350747438     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/SC.2008.5214248     Document Type: Conference Paper

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