MPI-based scalable computing platform for parallel numerical application
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Albaiz, Abdulaziz (Abdulaziz Mohammad)
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Message Passing Interface-based scalable computing platform for parallel numerical application
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Computation for Design and Optimization Program.
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John R. Williams.
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Developing parallel numerical applications, such as simulators and solvers, involves a variety of challenges in dealing with data partitioning, workload balancing, data dependencies, and synchronization. Many numerical applications share the need for an underlying parallel framework for parallelization on multi-core/multi-machine hardware. In this thesis, a computing platform for parallel numerical applications is designed and implemented. The platform performs parallelization by multiprocessing over MPI library, and serves as a layer of abstraction that hides the complexities in dealing with data distribution and inter-process communication. It also provides the essential functions that most numerical application use, such as handling data-dependency, workload-balancing, and overlapping communication and computation. The performance evaluation of the parallel platform shows that it is highly scalable for large problems.
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Thesis: S.M., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Computation for Design and Optimization Program, 2014. Cataloged from PDF version of thesis. Includes bibliographical references (page 61).
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2014Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Computation for Design and Optimization ProgramPublisher
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Computation for Design and Optimization Program.