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A parallel approach for solving a lubrication problem in industrial devices

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High-Performance Computing and Networking (HPCN-Europe 1999)

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This work presents a parallel version of a complex numerical algorithm to solve a lubrication problem studied in Tribology. The execution of the sequential algorithm on a workstation requires a huge amount of CPU time and memory resources. So, in order to reduce the computational cost, we have applied parallelization techniques to the most costly parts of the original source code. Some blocks of the sequential code were also redesigned for the execution on a multiprocessor. In this paper we describe our parallel version and we also present some results that illustrate its efficiency in terms of execution time.

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  1. Department of Electronics and Systems, University of A Coruña, Spain

    M. Arenaz, R. Doallo & J. Touriño

  2. Department of Mathematics, University of A Coruña, Spain

    C. Vázquez

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Peter Sloot Marian Bubak Alfons Hoekstra Bob Hertzberger

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Arenaz, M., Doallo, R., Touriño, J., Vázquez, C. (1999). A parallel approach for solving a lubrication problem in industrial devices. In: Sloot, P., Bubak, M., Hoekstra, A., Hertzberger, B. (eds) High-Performance Computing and Networking. HPCN-Europe 1999. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1593. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg . https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0100669

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