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Civil-Comp Proceedings
ISSN 1759-3433 CCP: 53
ADVANCES IN ENGINEERING COMPUTATIONAL TECHNOLOGY Edited by: B.H.V. Topping
Paper II.7
Dual Boundary Element Method for Crack Growth Analysis on Distributed-Memory Multiprocessors P. Gonzalez, T.F. Pena, J.C. Cabaleiro and F.F. Rivera
Department of Electronics and Computer Science, University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain P. Gonzalez, T.F. Pena, J.C. Cabaleiro, F.F. Rivera, "Dual Boundary Element Method for Crack Growth Analysis on Distributed-Memory Multiprocessors", in B.H.V. Topping, (Editor), "Advances in Engineering Computational Technology", Civil-Comp Press, Edinburgh, UK, pp 65-71, 1998. doi:10.4203/ccp.53.2.7
Abstract
The Dual Boundary Element Method (DBEM) has been
presented as an effective numerical technique for the
analysis of linear elastic crack problems. Analysis
of large structural integrity problems may need the
use of large computational resources, both in terms of
CPU time and memory requirements. This paper reports
a message-passing implementation of the Dual
Boundary Element formulation dealing with the analysis
of crack growth in structures. The parallel algorithm
is framed on a distributed computing environment using
the Message-Passing Interface (MPI). Different data distribution
techniques have been studied and the performance
of the methods has been tested for several problems.
The results, in terms of scalability and load balance,
are presented in this paper. Our experience indicates
that MP1 provides an effective distributed computing
environment for BEM research and its different
applications.
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