Rodrigues, J. N., Johnson, S. P., Walshaw, C. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0253-7779 and Cross, M. (1999) Automatic implementation of dynamic load balancing strategies for structured computational mechanics codes. In: Topping, B.H.V., (ed.) Developments in Computational Mechanics with High Performance Computing. Civil-Comp Press, Edinburgh, UK, pp. 41-47. ISBN 0 948 749 59 8 (doi:10.4203/ccp.57.2.4)

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Abstract

This paper presents a new dynamic load balancing technique for structured mesh computational mechanics codes in which the processor partition range limits of just one of the partitioned dimensions uses non-coincidental limits, as opposed to using coincidental limits in all of the partitioned dimensions. The partition range limits are 'staggered', allowing greater flexibility in obtaining a balanced load distribution in comparison to when the limits are changed 'globally'. as the load increase/decrease on one processor no longer restricts the load decrease/increase on a neighbouring processor. The automatic implementation of this 'staggered' load balancing strategy within an existing parallel code is presented in this paper, along with some preliminary results.

Item Type:	Book Section
Pre-2014 Departments:	School of Computing & Mathematical Sciences
Last Modified:	14 Oct 2016 09:00
URI:	http://gala.gre.ac.uk/id/eprint/411

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