Implementation of a parallel algorithm on a distributed network
Manish Raghunathrao Deshpande, Jinzhang Feng, Charles Merkle, A. Deshpande · 31st Aerospace Sciences Meeting · 1993
The objective of this research is to investigate the potential of using a network of concurrently operating workstations for solving large compute-intensive problems typical of Computational Fluid Dynamics. Such problems have a communication structure based primarily on nearestneighbour communication and are therefore ideally suited to message passing. The implementation of a 3-D NavierStokes code on a network of IBM RISC/6000's is described. The performance of this code is compared with that on conventional high-performance machines such as the CrayYMP and the Intel iPSC/860. The results suggest that a cluster of workstations presents a viable and economical resource for this purpose. Additionally a workstation network has the advantage of easy accessibility, fault tolerance and a simple environment for program development.