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FEAP => Parallel FEAP => Topic started by: aleximos on September 07, 2012, 06:32:16 AM

Title: Non-parallelizable problems
Post by: aleximos on September 07, 2012, 06:32:16 AM

I would like to ask something theoretic about parallel computing in FEM. I tried to run a contact example in Parfeap but it  doesn't work, that's because the contact is not integrated yet in Parfeap or because it is a  non-parallelizable problem?
Also which  FEM problems are  non-parallelizable?

Title: Re: Non-parallelizable problems
Post by: FEAP_Admin on September 07, 2012, 08:37:14 AM

Contact is not parallelized in FEAP.  To see the types of problems that can be solved in parallel please see the parallel manual (online) but in short it would be static and dynamic problems as well as eigenvalue problems -- problems where the connectivity can be computed from the mesh input alone.

Title: Re: Non-parallelizable problems
Post by: aleximos on September 07, 2012, 09:36:32 AM

Can you recommend any link about non-parallelizable problems in FEM? Also the contact problems do they belong to non-parallelizable problems?

Title: Re: Non-parallelizable problems
Post by: FEAP_Admin on September 07, 2012, 12:23:56 PM

It is not a question of non-parallelizable or not.  Given most any FEA problem one can probably come up with a parallel solution.  It is more a question of has someone programmed the parallel solution or do you have to program it yourself.