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A parallel adaptive cartesian PDE solver using space-filling curves

  • Technical University of Munich

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Abstract

In this paper, we present a parallel multigrid PDE solver working on adaptive hierarchical cartesian grids. The presentation is restricted to the linear elliptic operator of second order, but extensions are possible and have already been realised as prototypes. Within the solver the handling of the vertices and the degrees of freedom associated to them is implemented solely using stacks and iterates of a Peano space-filling curve. Thus, due to the structuredness of the grid, two administrative bits per vertex are sufficient to store both geometry and grid refinement information. The implementation and parallel extension, using a space-filling curve to obtain a load balanced domain decomposition, will be formalised. In view of the fact that we are using a multigrid solver of linear complexity O(n), it has to be ensured that communication cost and, hence, the parallel algorithm's overall complexity do not exceed this linear behaviour.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationEuro-Par 2006 Parallel Processing - 12th International Euro-Par Conference, Proceedings
PublisherSpringer Verlag
Pages1064-1074
Number of pages11
ISBN (Print)3540377832, 9783540377832
DOIs
StatePublished - 2006
Event12th International Euro-Par Conference 2006 - Lisbon, Portugal
Duration: 28 Aug 20061 Sep 2006

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume4128 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference12th International Euro-Par Conference 2006
Country/TerritoryPortugal
CityLisbon
Period28/08/061/09/06

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