Parallel Finite Element Analysis Platform for the Earth Simulator: GeoFEM

Abstract. GeoFEM has been developed as a finite element solid earth simulator using the Earth Simulator (ES) (35.61 Tflops/peak according to the Linpack benchmark test). It is composed of a platform and some pluggable ‘analysis modules’ for structural, electromagnetic thermal fluid, and wave propagation simulations. The platform includes three parts: parallel I/O interface, iterative equation solvers and visualizers. Parallel solvers have got very high performance on the ES. When using up to 176 nodes of the ES, the computational speed of the static linear analysis by the optimized ICCG (Conjugate Gradient method with Incomplete Cholesky Preconditioning) solver, has reached 3.8 TFLOPS (33.7% of peak performance of 176 nodes). Parallel visualizer can provide many visualization methods for analysis modules covering scalar, vector and tensor datasets, and have been optimized in parallel performance. The analysis modules have also been vectorized and parallelized suitably for the ES an...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2003
• Where: ICCS
• Authors: Hiroshi Okuda, Kengo Nakajima, Mikio Iizuka, Li Chen, Hisashi Nakamura
• Keywords: Earth Simulator, ICCS 2003, Parallel I/o Interface, Parallel Visualizer