HTML version of Scripted Foils prepared 27 october 1996
Foil 4 Performance for Increasing Stencil
From CPS615-Lecture on Performance(end) and Computer Technologies(start) Delivered Lectures of CPS615 Basic Simulation Track for Computational Science -- 10 September 96. byGeoffrey C. Fox * Secs 277.9
This foil shows that larger stencils have much lower overheads (and hence better parallel performance) than simple Laplace's equation with 5 point stencil