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A parallel simulator, based on the Dual Site-Bond Model of complex media, is developed to study Hg intrusion and extrusion processes in the myriad of voids contained in a porous network. In order to reduce the requirements in RAM and computing resources, the porous network is partitioned into several sub-networks distributed in different cluster processors. The simulator uses shared memory to process (with OpenMP) each sub-network and applies a message passing protocol (with MPI) to allow communication among different processors. We show experimental results that reflect a good performance of our proposal when using different sizes of porous networks in a cluster with 32 nodes, each one having 4 processors.
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Moreno-Montiel, C.H., Rojas-González, F., Román-Alonso, G., Cordero-Sánchez, S., Castro-García, M.A., Aguilar-Cornejo, M. (2009). A Parallel Simulator for Mercury (Hg) Porosimetry. In: Ropo, M., Westerholm, J., Dongarra, J. (eds) Recent Advances in Parallel Virtual Machine and Message Passing Interface. EuroPVM/MPI 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5759. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-03770-2_36
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