Dear Prof. Taylor, dear Admin,
to test whether parFEAP could improve (accelerate) out simulation, a simple test has been made, which is a implicit dynamic analysis of a cantilever beam under self weight.
In the attached files you can read from the Ofiles, that the sequential run used 53 sec., and the parallel run used 63 sec. (with np=4).
First question form my side, should the optimal speed up be 4? Or precisely speaking close to 4?
If true, there are some issues that might lead to the problem, but I am not totally sure and it is also very difficult for me to test all. The general informations that I can give are as follows:
- feap 8.4
- petsc-3.4.3
- intel fortran compiler
- run with command "mpirun -np 4 ./feap Itest_par_rev4_0001"
- implicit ?
- dynamic ?
- utan ?
- problem still to "small" to be parallelized?
- (our Institute Makefile, it could be provided if needed)
Thank you for any help or suggestion!
