Improving the performance of Uintah: A large-scale adaptive meshing computational framework

Proceedings of the 2010 IEEE International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing, IPDPS 2010

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages

  Luitjens, Justin ^a   Berzins, Martin ^a  

^a University of Utah   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive mesh refinement; Load balancing; Parallelism

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENTAL FIRES; ADAPTIVE MESH REFINEMENT; ADAPTIVE MESHING; COMMON COMPONENT ARCHITECTURE; COMPUTATIONAL FRAMEWORK; COST ESTIMATIONS; DATA STRUCTURE DESIGN; FLUID-STRUCTURE INTERACTION PROBLEM; LOAD BALANCING ALGORITHMS; LOAD-BALANCING; MEMORY USAGE; MESH CELLS; MULTI-PHYSICS; STRUCTURED MESH;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA STRUCTURES; DISTRIBUTED PARAMETER NETWORKS; FLUID STRUCTURE INTERACTION; PARALLEL ARCHITECTURES;

STRUCTURAL DESIGN;

EID: 77954010298     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IPDPS.2010.5470437     Document Type: Conference Paper

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