A methodology for parallelizing PDE solvers: Application to semiconductor device simulation
Bruce Herndon, Narayana R. Aluru, Arthur Raefsky, Ronald Goossens, Kincho H. Law, R.W. Dutton · PPSC · 1995
A methodology for creating parallel grid-based partial differential equation (PDE) solvers from serial ones with minimal changes to the existing code and data structures is presented. The approach is based upon the single-program-multiple-data programming model and is applicable to a wide range of PDE solution techniques while remaining easily portable to most message-passing distributed-memory parallel computers. Results of applying this methodology to semiconductor device simulators are given.