Subject: Re: Request to review a paper C519: Parallel Implementation of the Fluid Particle Model for Simulating Complex Fluids in the Mesoscale From: "Richard C. Ward" Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2001 18:44:18 -0400 To: fox@csit.fsu.edu X-UIDL: 12730bcf01980000 X-Mozilla-Status: 0011 X-Mozilla-Status2: 00000000 Received: by mailer.csit.fsu.edu (mbox gcfpc) (with Cubic Circle's cucipop (v1.31 1998/05/13) Mon Oct 15 19:15:59 2001) X-From_: fox@mailer.csit.fsu.edu Mon Oct 15 18:50:38 2001 Return-Path: Delivered-To: gcfpc@csit.fsu.edu Received: from dirac.csit.fsu.edu (dirac.csit.fsu.edu [144.174.128.44]) by mailer.csit.fsu.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id B35AA23A09 for ; Mon, 15 Oct 2001 18:50:37 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost by dirac.csit.fsu.edu (AIX4.2/UCB 8.7) id SAA87954; Mon, 15 Oct 2001 18:50:36 -0400 (EDT) Resent-Message-Id: <200110152250.SAA87954@dirac.csit.fsu.edu> Replied: Mon, 15 Oct 2001 18:50:21 -0400 Replied: "Richard C. Ward" Delivered-To: fox@csit.fsu.edu Received: from emroute1.cind.ornl.gov (emroute1.cind.ornl.gov [128.219.159.12]) by mailer.csit.fsu.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 195EC23A09 for ; Mon, 15 Oct 2001 18:45:26 -0400 (EDT) Received: from emroute1.cind.ornl.gov (LOCALHOST [127.0.0.1]) by emroute1.cind.ornl.gov (PMDF V6.1 #39060) with ESMTP id <0GL900L38R7PXB@emroute1.cind.ornl.gov> for fox@csit.fsu.edu; Mon, 15 Oct 2001 18:45:25 -0400 (EDT) Received: from email.cind.ornl.gov (email.cind.ornl.gov [134.167.3.92]) by emroute1.cind.ornl.gov (PMDF V6.1 #39060) with ESMTPS id <0GL900L1YR72ZG@emroute1.cind.ornl.gov> for fox@csit.fsu.edu; Mon, 15 Oct 2001 18:45:02 -0400 (EDT) Received: from email.cind.ornl.gov by email.cind.ornl.gov (PMDF V5.2-33 #46558) with ESMTP id <0GL900201R71J4@email.cind.ornl.gov> for fox@csit.fsu.edu; Mon, 15 Oct 2001 18:45:02 -0400 (EDT) Received: from rwdnt (rwdnt.cad.ornl.gov [160.91.64.155]) by email.cind.ornl.gov (PMDF V5.2-33 #46558) with SMTP id <0GL9001OQR6D1L@email.cind.ornl.gov> for fox@csit.fsu.edu; Mon, 15 Oct 2001 18:44:40 -0400 (EDT) In-reply-to: <3B937587.5040909@csit.fsu.edu> X-Sender: rwd@email.cind.ornl.gov (Unverified) Message-id: <0GL9001ORR6E1L@email.cind.ornl.gov> MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.0.1 Content-type: multipart/mixed; boundary="Boundary_(ID_SOOEOS4s3oibq09G9qq0Dw)" References: <0GIU008EN15EJE@email.cind.ornl.gov> Resent-To: Geoffrey Fox Resent-Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2001 18:50:36 -0400 Resent-From: Geoffrey Fox Geoffrey, I am very sorry that I have taken so long to review this paper. I certainly bit off more than I should have here. Here is my review. I hope that this is what you are looking for. I would recommend publication only after a thorough rewrite of the paper. The grammatical and textual blunders make it hard to understand and detract from the overall value of the publication. I was confused as to the naming of the runs until I save Table 1. So disregard my comment (item #4) in the hard copy of the referee recommendation I am sending. My comments can be communicated to the authors. Richard Ward C. Paper and referee metadata: Date: October 15, 2001 Title: "Parallel Implementation of the Fluid Particle Model for Simulating Complex Fluids in the Mesoscale" Authors: K. Boryczko, W. Dzwinel, and D. A. Yeun. Referee: Richard C. Ward Address: Oak Ridge National Laboratory P.O. Box 2008 Bldg 6011 MS 6418 Oak Ridge, TN 37831-6418 Referee Recommendation: Accepted provided changes are made as follows: 1) Improve description of the parallel implementation, particularly page 7, to provide greater clarity. 2) Fix grammatical errors and some notational errors and acronym definitions. I am returning my copy of the paper with editorial corrections as a help to the authors. 3) Note that Figures 6 and 7 are interchanged, but correctly called out in the text. I don't see how Fig 4b is a rhombic dodecahedron. Maybe I'm missing something? Review This paper is very interesting and an important contribution to the literature on parallel methods for Fluid Particle Models (FPM). However, it needs a great deal of grammatical editing before I would recommend publication. I have edited the text to provide my suggestions as to changes, but the authors should check the journal's standards before resubmitting. I found two figures mislabeled on the Figure (6 and 7 got interchanged). I have double-checked the equations against the Espanol reference (Ref. 17), and I don't see any problems, but must confess that I do not know this field well enough to make an independent check of the equations. The authors do a generally good job of describing the FPM (perhaps providing more than needed), before going into the parallel implementation. I felt the descriptions in the parallel implementation section, particularly page 7, were confusing and sometimes redundant. Tightening up the comparison of FPM and MD would help the "readability" of the paper. Perhaps the use of lower case in the acronym for "mutual nearest neighborhood (mnn)" concept really confused me as I thought that mnn referred to lattice planes! The acronym should be capitalized as: "mutual nearest neighborhood (MNN)" so as to avoid confusion. ccNUMA is not defined when it is first used (page 13), but is defined on page 15. Should be defined when first used. If these changes were made, the paper would be much more readable and would warrant publication. I would suggest that the authors make these corrections and resubmit the paper for review before it is published. Richard Ward Oak Ridge National Laboratory (865) 574-5449 wardrc1@ornl.gov