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Experience with Massive Parallelism for CFD Applications at NASA Ames Research Center

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Supercomputer ’92

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Eines der Hauptziele des Applied Research Branch in der Numerical Aerodynamic Simulation (NAS) Systems Division am NASA Ames Research Center ist die beschleunigte Einführung von parallelen Hochleistungsrechnern in ein produktionsorientiertes Rechenzentrum. In dieser Arbeit werden die Zielrichtungen des NAS Projekts in Bezug auf Parallelrechner dargestellt. Weiterhin werden die Erfahrungen mit experimentellen Parallelrechnern im NAS Applied Research Branch zusam-mengefasst. Im Einzelnen wird über Ergebnisse mit Anwendungen in der Strömungsmechanik auf der Connection Machine CM-2 und dem Intel iPSC/860 berichtet. Ergebnisse von Berechnungen mit unstrukturierten Gittern und mit Teilchensimulationen werden dargestellt. Angesichts der Erfahrungen bei NASA wird die zunkünftige Entwicklung von Parallelrechnern für die Anwendungen in der Strömungsmechanik diskutiert.

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Simon, H.D. (1992). Experience with Massive Parallelism for CFD Applications at NASA Ames Research Center. In: Meuer, HW. (eds) Supercomputer ’92. Informatik aktuell. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-77661-8_10

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