Controlling unstructured mesh partitions for massively Parallel Simulations

SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing

Volumn 32, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 3201-3227

  Zhou, Min ^a   Sahni, Onkar ^a   Devine, Karen D ^b   Shephard, Mark S ^a   Jansen, Kenneth E ^c  

^a RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Element imbalance; Graph hypergraph; Partition improvement; Unstructured mesh; Vertex imbalance

Indexed keywords

GRAPH THEORY; MESH GENERATION; PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

'CURRENT; ELEMENT IMBALANCE; GRAPH/HYPERGRAPH; HYPER GRAPH; MASSIVELY PARALLELS; MESH PARTITION; PARALLEL SIMULATIONS; PARTITION IMPROVEMENT; UNSTRUCTURED MESHES; VERTEX IMBALANCE;

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD;

EID: 79251502373     PISSN: 10648275     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1137/090777323     Document Type: Article

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