Orderings and direct methods for coarse granular parallel solutions in equation-based flowsheeting

When the cost of interprocessor communication is not insignificant compared to the cost of computation, it becomes important to identify a coarse parallel task granularity in algorithms that are executed on parallel computers. At the same time, such coarse granular tasks should represent a fairly uniform processor load distribution. Previously proposed methods for identifying coarse task granularity in the solution of linear equations for equation-based (EB) flowsheeting have attempted to exploit the natural block structure of these matrices; however, those methods made no attempt to reduce interprocessor communication or balance the processor load distribution.

Name thesis:degree_name

Ph.D.

Level thesis:degree_level

Dissertation

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Chemical Engineering

Grantor

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Year dc:date

2011

Author dc:creator

• Coon, Alan Blaine

Contributors dc:contributor

• Stadtherr, Mark A.

• Engineering, Chemical
• Computer Science

Statement dc:rights

• Copyright 1990 Coon, Alan Blaine

Language dc:language

eng

Identifier

AAI9021666
(UMI)AAI9021666

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/21839