On the use of many-core machines for the acceleration of a mesh truncation technique for FEM

Finite element method (FEM) has been used for years for radiation problems in the field of electromagnetism. To tackle problems of this kind, mesh truncation techniques are required, which may lead to the use of high computational resources. In fact, electrically large radiation problems can only be...

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Published inThe Journal of supercomputing Vol. 75; no. 3; pp. 1686 - 1696
Main Authors Belloch, Jose A., Amor-Martin, Adrian, Garcia-Donoro, Daniel, Martínez-Zaldívar, Francisco J., Garcia-Castillo, Luis E.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published New York Springer US 01.03.2019
Springer Nature B.V
Subjects
Acceleration
Compilers
Computation
Computer Science
Electromagnetism
Finite element method
Interpreters
Message passing
Processor Architectures
Programming Languages
Finite elements
Electromagnetism
Acceleration
OpenMP
Parallelization
MPI
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Summary:Finite element method (FEM) has been used for years for radiation problems in the field of electromagnetism. To tackle problems of this kind, mesh truncation techniques are required, which may lead to the use of high computational resources. In fact, electrically large radiation problems can only be tackled using massively parallel computational resources. Different types of multi-core machines are commonly employed in diverse fields of science for accelerating a number of applications. However, properly managing their computational resources becomes a very challenging task. On the one hand, we present a hybrid message passing interface + OpenMP-based acceleration of a mesh truncation technique included in a FEM code for electromagnetism in a high-performance computing cluster equipped with 140 compute nodes. Results show that we obtain about 85% of the theoretical maximum speedup of the machine. On the other hand, a graphics processing unit has been used to accelerate one of the parts that presents high fine-grain parallelism.
ISSN:0920-8542
1573-0484
DOI:10.1007/s11227-018-02739-9