Elsevier

Parallel Computing

Volume 22, Issue 5, August 1996, Pages 725-737
Parallel Computing

Practical aspect and experience
Industrial parallel computing with real codes

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Abstract

The significant amount of work required to move large commercial application programs to parallel architectures in a portable way has stalled the take up of parallel technology in industry, thereby preventing the extra competitiveness of this technology from being fully utilized. Therefore, the European Commission has decided to promote European industry through the Europort initiative (within the ESPRIT III programme) by partially funding the porting of 38 industrially relevant codes to parallel computers. The goal is to demonstrate the benefit and cost-effectiveness of such systems and foster their industrial use. This paper presents current trends and first official benchmark results in the area of fluid dynamics and structural mechanics (Europort-1). These clearly show that it is not necessary to develop new codes in order to be able to gain essential benefit from the power of parallel architectures. In spite of serious constraints which come along with the porting of commercial codes in an industrial environment, all parallel codes will outperform their sequential counterpart at a considerably better price-performance ratio.

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