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We present advances concerning efficient finite element assembly and linear solvers on current and upcoming HPC architectures obtained in the frame of the Exa-Dune project, part of the DFG priority program 1648 Software for Exascale Computing (SPPEXA). In this project, we aim at the development of both flexible and efficient hardware-aware software components for the solution of PDEs based on the DUNE platform and the FEAST library. In this contribution, we focus on node-level performance and accelerator integration, which will complement the proven MPI-level scalability of the framework. The higher-level aspects of the Exa-Dune project, in particular multiscale methods and uncertainty quantification, are detailed in the companion paper (Bastian et al., Advances concerning multiscale methods and uncertainty quantification in Exa-Dune. In: Proceedings of the SPPEXA Symposium, 2016).
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This research was funded by the DFG SPP 1648 Software for Exascale Computing.
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Bastian, P. et al. (2016). Hardware-Based Efficiency Advances in the EXA-DUNE Project. In: Bungartz, HJ., Neumann, P., Nagel, W. (eds) Software for Exascale Computing - SPPEXA 2013-2015. Lecture Notes in Computational Science and Engineering, vol 113. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-40528-5_1
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