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MPI HPF and DAGH for Parallelization of Black Hole Codes

Given by Scott Klasky, Tom Haupt, Geoffrey C. Fox at SIAM Workshop Minneapolis "Is Message Passing Obsolete" on 16 March 97. Foils prepared 18 March 97

We describe basic physics and computational features of Binary Black Collision Grand Challenge
We show a simple finite difference is complicated by
  • Adaptive Mesh refinement
  • Complex inner and outer boundary conditions
  • Need for several algorithms for hyberbolic and elliptic parts of problem
MPI or more generally message passing is not obsolete but rather the only complete solution!
Higher level systems DAGH and especially HPF cannot express full complexity of problem and MPI must fill in the missing parts
HPF2 might be able to express full problem but HPF1 misses many key capabilities
DAGH is more succesful than HPF1 but needs MPI for parts of problem
Postscript or FramemakerVersion
HPF Code for Linear Waves
Grand Challenge Alliance Home Page
NPAC Activity in Grand Challenge Alliance


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1 HPF & DAGH usage in the Binary Black Hole Grand Challenge
2 Goals of the Alliance
3 Black Hole Grand Challenge Alliance
4 Black Hole Initial Condition from Scott Klasky
5 Computational Infrastructure

The Physics of Colliding Black Holes
6 ADM Equations
7 ADM Equations continued
8 Causal Differencing
9 Causal Differencing continued
10 Apparent Horizon boundary conditions

Summary of Computational Issues
11 Difficulties of the BBH Problem

More Detail on Each Issue
12 DAGH System
13 Sample HPF and
DAGH codes
14 Sample of HPF and DAGH code
15 Parallel Execution in DAGH
16 Parallel Execution in DAGH continued
17 Implementation
18 Linear Waves
19 Linear wave problem with outer boundary condition
20 Elliptic Problem for the shift
21 Black holes (Inner boundary condition)
22 Black holes continued
23 Moving Inner boundary continued
24 Moving Inner boundary
25 Finding the Apparent Horizon

Some Conclusions
26 Some Conclusions on Programming Models

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