Journal of Mechanical Engineering (Nov 2016)

Parallel Computation on Multicore Processors Using Explicit Form of the Finite Element Method and C++ Standard Libraries

  • Rek Václav,
  • Němec Ivan

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1515/scjme-2016-0020
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 66, no. 2
pp. 67 – 78

Abstract

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In this paper, the form of modifications of the existing sequential code written in C or C++ programming language for the calculation of various kind of structures using the explicit form of the Finite Element Method (Dynamic Relaxation Method, Explicit Dynamics) in the NEXX system is introduced. The NEXX system is the core of engineering software NEXIS, Scia Engineer, RFEM and RENEX. It has the possibilities of multithreaded running, which can now be supported at the level of native C++ programming language using standard libraries. Thanks to the high degree of abstraction that a contemporary C++ programming language provides, a respective library created in this way can be very generalized for other purposes of usage of parallelism in computational mechanics.

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