International Journal of Computer Applications |
Foundation of Computer Science (FCS), NY, USA |
Volume 32 - Number 10 |
Year of Publication: 2011 |
Authors: Ewedafe Simon Uzezi, Gates Kparo |
10.5120/3947-5288 |
Ewedafe Simon Uzezi, Gates Kparo . Article:Domain Decomposition of the Fourth-Order AGE Method on Heat Equation with MPI. International Journal of Computer Applications. 32, 10 ( October 2011), 25-38. DOI=10.5120/3947-5288
A parallel implementation of the fourth-order Alternating Group Explicit (AGE-4) method on 1-D heat equation on a distributed computing environment through Message Passing Interface (MPI) is reported. The numerical method is implicit and is based on a splitting strategy which is applied alternately at each half time step. The parallelization of the program is implemented by a domain decomposition strategy on MIMD parallel architectures using MPI platform. The parallelization strategy and performance are discussed. It is concluded that the efficiency is strongly dependent on the grid size, block numbers and the number of processors. Different strategies to improve the computational efficiency are proposed.