Highly efficient portability in parallel codes for industrial applications

Abstract

Three different types of data partitioning are used to achieve processor load balancing. The software implementation makes use of the Oxford BSP Library and is portable across a wide range of parallel machines. Testing on systems presently available to the project has demonstrated good parallel performance of the interim codes on selected test cases. Software development has been aided by the formal character of the BSP model and the relative simplicity of the BSP library as compared with message passing libraries. The paper has presented methods for achieving highly efficient portable parallel performance together with supporting results and analysis taken from a EUROPORT project to demonstrate high performance for large scale commercial electromagnetic codes on practical industrial applications.