Implementation of Parallel Mesh Partition and Ghost Generation for the Finite Element Mesh Framework
Thesis 2005
Publication Type: MS Thesis
Repository URL: sayantan-masters
Abstract
The Finite Element Method framework allows the user to develop
scalable parallel finite element applications easily. During
initialization it reads in an input mesh and partitions it into a
large number of chunks that are distributed among different
processors. This partition process is sequential and memory
intensive. Thus the partition algorithm is a bottleneck for running
finite element applications with large meshes on a large number of
processors. This thesis parallelizes the partition algorithm to
remove the memory bottleneck on one processor. It also presents an
algorithm to generate ghost elements in parallel.
TextRef
Sayantan Chakravorty, "Implementation of parallel mesh partition and ghost
generation for the Finite Element Mesh framework", Dept. of Computer Science,
University of Illinois, 2005.
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