Beowulf & Fluid Mechanics

[William Gropp]

At 09:53 AM 6/30/2000 +0200, Nicolas Lardjane wrote:
>Hello.
>
>I'd like to know if someone has any experience of using PC cluster for 
>solving fluid mechanics problems by domain decomposition methods. The 
>question is what performance can be expected compared to super-computers ?

A fully implicit, unstructured CFD code was the subject of 
http://www.mcs.anl.gov/~gropp/papers/sc99/final-bell-12-4.pdf ; look at the 
ASCI Red results in comparison with the other (non-vector) supercomputer 
results.  Similar results have been seen on clusters with Myrinet.

Bill