Parallel Performance of a Combustion Chemistry Simulation

Issue title: Applications Analysis

Article type: Research Article

Authors: SKINNER, GREGG | EIGENMANN, RUDOLF

Affiliations: Center for Supercomputing Research and Development, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1308 W. Main St., Urbana, 1L 61801; E-mail: {skinner,eigenmann}@csrd.uiuc.edn

Abstract: We used a description of a combustion simulation's mathematical and computational methods to develop a version for parallel execution. The result was a reasonable performance improvement on small numbers of processors. We applied several important programming techniques, which we describe, in optimizing the application. This work has implications for programming languages, compiler design, and software engineering.

Journal: Scientific Programming, vol. 4, no. 3, pp. 127-139, 1995