NPAC Technical Report SCCS-626

Computational Toolkit for Colliding Black Holes and CFD

Nikos Chrisochoides, Tomasz Haupt, Geoffrey Fox

Submitted July 11 1994


Abstract

We present a framework for a high level toolkit for solving partial differential equations. The requirements for very large and complex PDE applications such as computational fluid dynamics and numerical relativity are examined in the framework of a modular toolkit approach based on visual programming. We address some of the principal non-numerical technical challenges : software integration, scheduling and distribution of the computation over a metacomputer. We also discus some of the challenges found in creating run-time support systems and parallel grid generation modules for future systems.


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