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A bibliography on parallel and vector numerical algorithms

This is a bibliography of numerical methods. It also includes a number of other references on machine architecture, programming language, and other topics of interest to scientific computing. Certain conference proceedings and anthologies which have been published in book form are listed also.

Ortega, J. M.↗

A bibliography on parallel and vector numerical algorithms

This is a bibliography on numerical methods. It also includes a number of other references on machine architecture, programming language, and other topics of interest to scientific computing. Certain conference proceedings and anthologies which have been published in book form are also listed.

Ortega, James M.↗

A bibliography on parallel and vector numerical algorithms

This is a bibliography on numerical methods. It also includes a number of other references on machine architecture, programming language, and other topics of interest to scientific computing. Certain conference proceedings and anthologies which have been published in book form are also listed.

Ortega, James M.↗

Scalable implementations of accurate excited-state coupled cluster theories: application of high-level methods to porphyrin based systems

The development of reliable tools for excited-state simulations is emerging as an extremely powerful computational chemistry tool for understanding complex processes in the broad class of light harvesting systems and optoelectronic devices. Over the last years we have been developing equation of motion coupled cluster (EOMCC) methods capable of tackling these problems. In this paper we discuss the parallel performance of EOMCC codes which provide accurate description of the excited-state correlation effects. Two aspects are discuss in details: (1) a new algorithm for the iterative EOMCC methods based on the novel task scheduling algorithms, and (2) parallel algorithms for the non-iterative methods describing the effect of triply excited configurations. We demonstrate that the most computationally intensive non-iterative part can take advantage of 210,000 cores of the Cray XT5 system at OLCF. In particular, we demonstrate the importance of non-iterative many-body methods for achieving experimental level of accuracy for several porphyrin-based system.

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Simulation of unsteady blood flows in a patient-specific compliant pulmonary artery with a highly parallel monolithically coupled fluid-structure interaction algorithm

Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) is increasingly used to study blood flows in patient-specific arteries for understanding certain cardiovascular diseases. The techniques work quite well for relatively simple problems, but need improvements when the problems become harder in the case when (1) the geometry becomes complex (from a few branches to a full pulmonary artery), (2) the model becomes more complex (from fluid-only calculation to coupled fluid-structure interaction calculation), (3) both the fluid and wall models become highly nonlinear, and (4) the computer on which we run the simulation is a supercomputer with tens of thousands of processor cores. To push the limit of CFD in all four fronts, in this paper, we develop and study a highly parallel algorithm for solving a monolithically coupled fluid-structure system for the modeling of the interaction of the blood flow and the arterial wall. As a case study, we consider a patient-specific, full size pulmonary artery obtained from CT (Computed Tomography) images, with an artificially added layer of wall with a fixed thickness. The fluid is modeled with a system of incompressible Navier-Stokes equations and the wall is modeled by a geometrically nonlinear elasticity equation. As far as we know this is the first time the unsteady blood flow in a full pulmonary artery is simulated without assuming a rigid wall. We report the proposed numerical algorithm and software scale well beyond 10,000 processor cores on a supercomputer for solving the fluid-structure interaction problem discretized with a stabilized finite element method in space and an implicit scheme in time involving hundreds of millions of unknowns.

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Non-Intrusive Parallel-in-Time Solvers for Partial Differential Equations (Final Report)

Many time-dependent problems and simulations are often modeled using Partial Differential Equations. Traditional modeling approaches that use sequential time-stepping are reaching a bottleneck in optimizing efficiency. The Center of Applied Science and Computing at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory extensively works on parallelizing these algorithms to leverage the increasing computational power from the growing number of processors in computer hardware. In particular, they aim to design non-intrusive algorithms that can generalize to a variety of problems and sizes without requiring additional information from or modifications on the original problems. Multigrid Reduction in Time (MGRIT) is a parallel-in-time algorithm that is designed to be non-intrusive. This project focuses on increasing the efficiency of MGRIT by approximating the coarse-grid operator using machine learning approaches as a means to find the most non-intrusive, or general, solution.

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A Scalable Parallel Wideband MLFMA for Efficient Electromagnetic Simulations on Large Scale Clusters

The development of the multilevel fast multipole algorithm (MLFMA) and its multiscale variants have enabled the use of integral equation (IE) based solvers to compute scattering from complicated structures. Development of scalable parallel algorithms, to extend the reach of these solvers, has been a topic of intense research for about a decade. In this paper, we present a new algorithm for parallel implementation of IE solver that is augmented with a wideband MLFMA and scalable on large number of processors. The wideband MLFMA employed here, to handle multiscale problems, is a hybrid combination of the accelerated Cartesian expansion (ACE) and the classical MLFMA. The salient feature of the presented parallel algorithm is that it is implicitly load balanced and exhibits higher performance. This is achieved by developing a strategy to partition the MLFMA tree, and hence the associated computations, in a self-similar fashion among the parallel processors. As detailed in the paper, the algorithm employs both spatial and direction partitioning approaches in a flexible manner to ensure scalable performance. Plethora of results are presented here to exhibit the scalability of this algorithm on 512 and more processors.

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An optimization method of relativistic backward wave oscillator using particle simulation and genetic algorithms

Optimal design method of high-power microwave source using particle simulation and parallel genetic algorithms is presented in this paper. The output power, simulated by the fully electromagnetic particle simulation code UNIPIC, of the high-power microwave device is given as the fitness function, and the float-encoding genetic algorithms are used to optimize the high-power microwave devices. Using this method, we encode the heights of non-uniform slow wave structure in the relativistic backward wave oscillators (RBWO), and optimize the parameters on massively parallel processors. Simulation results demonstrate that we can obtain the optimal parameters of non-uniform slow wave structure in the RBWO, and the output microwave power enhances 52.6% after the device is optimized.

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Modeling of wave processes in blocky media with porous and fluid-saturated interlayers

The wave processes in blocky media are analyzed by applying different mathematical models, wherein the elastic blocks interact with each other via pliant interlayers with the complex mechanical properties. Four versions of constitutive equations are considered. In the first version, an elastic interaction between the blocks is simulated within the framework of linear elasticity theory, and the model of elastic–plastic interlayers is constructed to take into account the appearance of irreversible deformation of interlayers at short time intervals. In the second one, the effects of viscoelastic shear in the interblock interlayers are taken into the consideration using the Poynting–Thomson rheological scheme. In the third option, the model of an elastic porous material is used in the interlayers, where the pores collapse if an abrupt compressive stress is applied. In the fourth case, the model of a fluid-saturated material with open pores is examined based on Biot's equations. The collapse of pores is modeled by the generalized rheological approach, wherein the mechanical properties of a material are simulated using four rheological elements. Three of them are the traditional elastic, viscous and plastic elements, the fourth element is the so-called rigid contact, which is used to describe the behavior of materials with the different resistance to tension and compression. It was shown that the thermodynamically consistent model is provided, which means that the energy balance equation is fulfilled for an entire blocky structure, where the kinetic and potential energy of the system is the sum of the kinetic and potential energies of the blocks and interlayers. Under numerical implementation of the interlayers models, the dissipationless finite difference Ivanov's method was used. The splitting method by spatial variables in the combination with the Godunov gap decay scheme was applied in the blocks. As a result, robust and stable computational algorithms are built and tested. Using MPI technology, the parallel software was designed for the modeling of wave processes in 2D setting. The numerical results are presented, discussed and future studies are outlined. - Highlights: • We model the propagation of waves in a blocky medium with compliant interlayers. • Models of porous and fluid saturated interlayers are proposed using Biot's approach. • A parallel computational algorithm is developed for supercomputers of cluster type. • Problems of instant rotation of central and boundary blocks are solved numerically. • Wave motions are compared in the cases of elastic and fluid-saturated interlayers.

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Virtual Time III, Part 1: Unified Virtual Time Synchronization for Parallel Discrete Event Simulation

Algorithms for synchronization of parallel discrete event simulation have historically been divided between conservative methods that require lookahead but not rollback, and optimistic methods that require rollback but not lookahead. In this paper we present a new approach in the form of a framework called Unified Virtual Time (UVT) that unifies the two approaches, combining the advantages of both within a single synchronization theory. Whenever timely lookahead information is available, a logical process (LP) executes conservatively using an irreversible event handler. When lookahead information is not available the LP does not block, as it would in a classical conservative execution, but instead executes optimistically using a reversible event handler. The switch from conservative to optimistic synchronization and back is decided on an event-by-event basis by the simulator, transparently to the model code. UVT treats conservative synchronization algorithms as optional accelerators for an underlying optimistic synchronization algorithm, enabling the speed of conservative execution whenever it is applicable, but otherwise falling back on the generality of optimistic execution. We describe UVT in a novel way, based on fundamental invariants, monotonicity requirements, and synchronization rules. UVT permits zero-delay messages and pays careful attention to tie-handling using superposition. We prove that under fairly general conditions a UVT simulation always makes progress in virtual time. This is Part 1 of a trio of papers describing the UVT framework for PDES, mixing conservative and optimistic synchronization and integrating throttling control.

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Parallelization of the Implicit RPLUS Algorithm

The multiblock reacting Navier-Stokes flow solver RPLUS2D was modified for parallel implementation. Results for non-reacting flow calculations of this code indicate parallelization efficiencies greater than 84% are possible for a typical test problem. Results tend to improve as the size of the problem increases. The convergence rate of the scheme is degraded slightly when additional artificial block boundaries are included for the purpose of parallelization. However, this degradation virtually disappears if the solution is converged near to machine zero. Recommendations are made for further code improvements to increase efficiency, correct bugs in the original version, and study decomposition effectiveness.

Orkwis, Paul D.↗

A Brief Summary on Formalizing Parallel Tensor Distributions, Redistributions, and Algorithm Derivations

Large-scale datasets in computational chemistry typically require distributed-memory parallel methods to perform a special operation known as tensor contraction. Tensors are multidimensional arrays, and a tensor contraction is akin to matrix multiplication with special types of permutations. Creating an efficient algorithm and optimized implementation in this domain is complex, tedious, and error-prone. To address this, we develop a notation to express data distributions so that we can apply use automated methods to find optimized implementations for tensor contractions. We consider the spin-adapted coupled cluster singles and doubles method from computational chemistry and use our methodology to produce an efficient implementation. Experiments per- formed on the IBM Blue Gene/Q and Cray XC30 demonstrate impact both improved performance and reduced memory consumption.

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A parallel in energy Krylov solution algorithm for the variational nodal method

To reduce the computational expense caused by the large number of energy groups in thermal and fast reactor calculations, we researched using parallelization in energy (i.e. group) of the multi-group response matrix equations derived from the Variational Nodal Method. This study focuses on solving steady-state eigenvalue problems in diffusion theory that are typically needed for depletion and reactivity coefficient calculations. To examine serial and parallel performance, GMRES, a Krylov algorithm, is applied to the multi-group system of equations at each fission source iteration. We also study the impact of using Wielandt acceleration on the eigenvalue/eigenvector problem. Numerical results based on a 72 group thermal and a 216 group fast reactor core problems are obtained for both serial and parallel calculations. The results show reduced CPU times when using GMRES and Wielandt acceleration in both serial and parallel calculations. (authors)

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Large-Scale Parallel Viscous Flow Computations using an Unstructured Multigrid Algorithm

The development and testing of a parallel unstructured agglomeration multigrid algorithm for steady-state aerodynamic flows is discussed. The agglomeration multigrid strategy uses a graph algorithm to construct the coarse multigrid levels from the given fine grid, similar to an algebraic multigrid approach, but operates directly on the non-linear system using the FAS (Full Approximation Scheme) approach. The scalability and convergence rate of the multigrid algorithm are examined on the SGI Origin 2000 and the Cray T3E. An argument is given which indicates that the asymptotic scalability of the multigrid algorithm should be similar to that of its underlying single grid smoothing scheme. For medium size problems involving several million grid points, near perfect scalability is obtained for the single grid algorithm, while only a slight drop-off in parallel efficiency is observed for the multigrid V- and W-cycles, using up to 128 processors on the SGI Origin 2000, and up to 512 processors on the Cray T3E. For a large problem using 25 million grid points, good scalability is observed for the multigrid algorithm using up to 1450 processors on a Cray T3E, even when the coarsest grid level contains fewer points than the total number of processors.

Mavriplis, Dimitri J.↗