Journal of the Korean Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics

Korean Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (한국산업응용수학회)
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PERFORMANCE ENHANCEMENT OF PARALLEL MULTIFRONTAL SOLVER ON BLOCK LANCZOS METHOD

  • Byun, Wan-Il (SCHOOL OF MECHANICAL AND AEROSPACE ENG, SEOUL NATIONAL UNIV) ;
  • Kim, Seung-Jo (SCHOOL OF MECHANICAL AND AEROSPACE ENG, SEOUL NATIONAL UNIV)
  • Received : 2008.12.29
  • Accepted : 2009.02.20
  • Published : 2009.03.25
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Abstract

The IPSAP which is a finite element analysis program has been developed for high parallel performance computing. This program consists of various analysis modules - stress, vibration and thermal analysis module, etc. The M orthogonal block Lanczos algorithm with shiftinvert transformation is used for solving eigenvalue problems in the vibration module. And the multifrontal algorithm which is one of the most efficient direct linear equation solvers is applied to factorization and triangular system solving phases in this block Lanczos iteration routine. In this study, the performance enhancement procedures of the IPSAP are composed of the following stages: 1) communication volume minimization of the factorization phase by modifying parallel matrix subroutines. 2) idling time minimization in triangular system solving phase by partial inverse of the frontal matrix and the LCM (least common multiple) concept.

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