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Civil-Comp Proceedings
ISSN 1759-3433
CCP: 111
PROCEEDINGS OF THE FIFTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON PARALLEL, DISTRIBUTED, GRID AND CLOUD COMPUTING FOR ENGINEERING
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Paper 33

A Massively-Parallel Multicore Acceleration of a Point Contact Solid Mechanics Simulation

M. Kolman and G. Kosec

Parallel and Distributed Systems Laboratory, Jožef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia

Full Bibliographic Reference for this paper
M. Kolman, G. Kosec, "A Massively-Parallel Multicore Acceleration of a Point Contact Solid Mechanics Simulation", in , (Editors), "Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Parallel, Distributed, Grid and Cloud Computing for Engineering", Civil-Comp Press, Stirlingshire, UK, Paper 33, 2017. doi:10.4203/ccp.111.33
Keywords: MLSM, meshless, OpenMP, Intel Xeon Phi coprocessor, parallel implementation .

Summary
This paper deals with the numerical determination of the stress and displacement distribution in a solid body subjected to the applied external force. The tackled solid mechanics problem is governed by the Navier-Cauchy equation that describes the deformation within the solid body through the displacement vector field. To obtain the solution, a coupled system of non-linear Partial Differential Equations (PDE) of second order has to be solved. In this paper, the problem is approached by a strong form Moving Least Squares (MLS) based numerical discretization also referred to as a Meshless Local Strong Form Method (MLSM). A generic C++ implementation of a MLSM is used for demonstration of parallel solution of a Point Contact problem on Intel® Xeon Phi™ multicore accelerator. All tests are executed on either the host machine with two Intel® Xeon® E5-2620 v3 6 core processors or offloaded to its 60 core Intel® Xeon Phi™ SE10/7120 series. The shared memory parallelization is implemented through an OpenMP API.

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