Guest editorial. [Computers and Artificial Intelligence. 1998. Vol. 17, No. 2-3]

Editorial

Load-balancing for mesh-based applications on heterogeneous cluster computers

This paper discusses load-balancing issues when using heterogeneous cluster computers. There is a growing trend towards the use of commodity microprocessor clusters. Although today's microprocessors have reached a theoretical peak performance in the range of one GFLOPS/s, heterogeneous clusters of commodity processors are amongst the most challenging parallel systems to programme efficiently. We will outline an approach for optimising the performance of parallel mesh-based applications for heterogeneous cluster computers and present case studies with the GeoFEM code. The focus is on application cost monitoring and load balancing using the DRAMA library.

Multi-physics modelling of materials processes on high performance parallel computers

Abstract not available

A single-code software model for multiphysics analysis-engine on parallel and distributed computers with the PHYSICA toolkit

Abstract not available