A block sparse shared-memory multifrontal finite element solver for problems of structural mechanics. (Received in the final form July 17, 2009)
Journal Title: Computer Assisted Methods in Engineering and Science - Year 2009, Vol 16, Issue 2
Abstract
The presented method is used in finite-element analysis software developed for multicore and multiprocessor shared-memory computers, or it can be used on single-processor personal computers under the operating systems Windows 2000, Windows XP, or Windows Vista, widely popular in small or mediumsized design offices. The method has the following peculiar features: it works with any ordering; it uses an object-oriented approach on which a dynamic, highly memory-efficient algorithm is based; it performs a block factoring in the frontal matrix that entails a high-performance arithmetic on each processor and ensures a good scalability in shared-memory systems. Many years of experience with this solver in the SCAD software system have shown the method's high efficiency and reliability with various large-scale problems of structural mechanics (hundreds of thousands to millions of equations).
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S. Y. Fialko
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