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In this paper we introduce a new method for parallelizing Finite Element simulations enabling the use of dynamic load balancing. A physical space partitioning is obtained by dividing the bounding cube into a large number of sub cubes. The cube mesh together with a workload attribute assigned to each cube is used to present an abstract view of the simulation. Based on this abstract view a dynamic load balancing process decides on a possible local repartitioning of the mesh. The dynamic load balancing process itself is diffusion based, that is cubes are migrated between neighboring partitions. A parallel simulation framework (P-CAM) is used to implement the dynamic load balancer.
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Schoneveld, A., Lees, M., Karyadi, E., Sloot, P.M.A. (1999). Dynamic load balancing in parallel finite element simulations. In: Sloot, P., Bubak, M., Hoekstra, A., Hertzberger, B. (eds) High-Performance Computing and Networking. HPCN-Europe 1999. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1593. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg . https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0100602
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