SCALABLE PARALLEL FINITE ELEMENT COMPUTATIONS IN A MICROGRAVITY ENVIRONMENT: RAYLEIGH BENARD TYPE PROBLEM SCALING

  • Speedup curve for Rayleigh Benard type flows.
  • Peak performance at 16.5 Gflops on 512 processor nodes for the T3D.
  • Computations on 1, 8, 64 and 512 processors, with fixed problem size per processor.
  • Project Director: Graham F. Carey, CFDLab, UT Austin.

    e-mail: carey@cfdlab.ae.utexas.edu