Parallel Software: Hardware Applications

PASHA - 7074

Keywords computational fluid dynamics, MIMD architectures, parallel computing, SIMD architectures

Start Date: 01 September 1992 / Duration: 24 months / Status: ongoing

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evaluation of porting an existing computational fluid dynamics and associated visualisation code to European made MIMD and SIMD platforms

Objectives and Approach

During the first year, both PHOENICS (CFD program) and CFView (visualisation program) have been ported to a MIMD and a SIMD machine. This will enable a comparison between the two ports to be made. The effectiveness of the MIMD implementation will be evaluated on two full industrial test cases in a link to the EUROPORT-1 project (8421).

The key features of the chosen platforms are:

• the use of European-made parallel hardware
• the dissemination of computational fluid dynamics (CFD) techniques as an information technology instrument, by creating CFD customisation tools that make the CFD technology usable by product designers and process operators lacking CFD expertise

CONTACT POINT

Brian Spalding
Concentration Heat & Momentum Ltd
40, High Street
Wimbledon Village
UK-London SW19 5AU
tel: +44 81 947-7651
fax: +44 81 879-3497

Participants

Coordinator
Concentration Heat & Momentum Ltd [UK]
Partners
BIBA [D]
Cambridge Parallel Processing Ltd [UK]
EMIT GmbH [D]
Numerical Mechanics Application International [B]
Parsytec GmbH [D]
Vrije Universiteit Brussel [B]

PASHA - 7074, December 1993

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