Improving the Performance of a Petroleum Reservoir Model on Workstation Clusters using MPI
Mário A. R. Dantas, Ed Zaluska · ePrints Soton (University of Southampton) · 1996
The relatively low-performance of a petroleum reservoir model when it executes on a single workstation is one of the key motivating factors for exploiting high-performance computing on workstation clusters. Workstation clusters, connected through a Local Area Network, are at a stage where their effectiveness as a suitable configuration for high-performance parallel processing has already been established. This paper discusses the improvement in performance of an engineering application on a workstation cluster using the MPI (Message Passing Interface) software environment. The importance of this approach for many engineering and scientific applications is illustrated by the case study, which also provides a recommended porting methodology for similar applications.