Parallel algorithms for radiation transport on unstructured grids

Proceedings of the International Conference on Supercomputing

Volumn 2000-November, Issue , 2000, Pages

  Plimpton, Steve ^a   Hendrickson, Bruce ^a   Burns, Shawn ^a   McLendon, Will ^b  

^a SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLUSTERING ALGORITHMS; MESSAGE PASSING; PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS; RADIATION EFFECTS;

ASYNCHRONOUS PARALLEL; BOLTZMANN; COMPUTATIONAL GRIDS; DISCRETE ORDINATES; DISTRIBUTED MEMORY; PARALLEL MACHINE; RADIATION FLUXES; RADIATION TRANSPORT; RADIATION TRANSPORT EQUATIONS; UNSTRUCTURED GRID;

BOLTZMANN EQUATION;

EID: 85117192151     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/SC.2000.10030     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (17)

1. M. L. Adams and W. R. Martin. Diffusion-synthetic acceleration of discontinuous finite-element transport iterations. Nucl. Sci. Eng., 111:145-167, 1992.
2. N. M. Amato and P. An. Task scheduling and parallel mesh-sweeps in transport computations. Technical Report TR00-009, Dept. Computer Science, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, 2000.
3. Y. Azmy. Multiprocessing for neutron diffusion and deterministic transport methods. Progress in Nuclear Energy, 1997.
4. n performance for DANTSYS/MPI on the Cray T3D. In Proc. Joint Intl. Conf. Math. Methods and Supercomputing for Nucl. Appl. Vol. 1, pages 377-393, 1997.
5. n algorithm for the massively parallel CM-200 computer. Nucl. Sci. Eng., 128:312-320, 1998.
6. P. Brown, B. Chang, F. Graziani, and C. S. Woodward. Implicit solution of large-scale radiation-material energy transfer problems. In Proc. 4th Intl. Symp. Iterative Methods in Sci. Comput., 1998.
7. S. P. Burns. Spatial domain-based parallelism in large-scale, participating-media, radiative transport applications. Technical Report SAND96-2485, Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM, 1996.
8. C. L. Castrianni and M. L. Adams. A nonlinear corner balance spatial discretization for transport on arbitrary grids. Nucl. Sci. Eng., 128:278-296, 1998.
9. C. R. Drumm. Parallel finite element electron-photon transport analysis on 2-d unstructured meshes. Technical Report SAND99-0098, Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM, 1999.
10. L. Fleischer, B. Hendrickson, and A. Pınar. On identifying strongly connected components in parallel. In Proc. Irregular'2000, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer-Verlag, 2000.
11. B. Hendrickson and R. Leland. The Chaco user's guide: Version 2.0. Technical Report SAND94-2692, Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM, 1994.
12. P. Nowak and M. K. Nemanic. Radiation transport calculations on unstructured grids using a spatially decomposed and threaded algorithm. In Proc. ANS Conf. on Math. and Computation, Reactor Phys. and Environmental Analysis in Nuclear Apps., pages 379-390, 1999.
13. S. D. Pautz. Personal communication.
14. n sweeps on unstructured meshes. in preparation.
15. G. L. Ramoné, M. L. Adams, and P. F. Nowak. Transport-synthetic acceleration methods for transport iterations. Nucl. Sci. Eng., 125:257-283, 1997.
16. Robert E. Tarjan. Depth first search and linear graph algorithms. SIAM J. Comput., 1(2):146-160, 1972.
17. n methods on 3-d unstructured grids. Nucl. Sci. Eng. to appear.