Measuring parallel processor performance
Communications of the ACM
Achieving scalable parallel molecular dynamics using dynamic spatial domain decomposition techniques
Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing - Special issue on dynamic load balancing
Introduction to the cell multiprocessor
IBM Journal of Research and Development - POWER5 and packaging
Validity of the single processor approach to achieving large scale computing capabilities
AFIPS '67 (Spring) Proceedings of the April 18-20, 1967, spring joint computer conference
Hybrid Distributed-/Shared-Memory Parallelization For Re-initializing Level Set Functions
HPCC '10 Proceedings of the 2010 IEEE 12th International Conference on High Performance Computing and Communications
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A model describing the acoustic field resulting from an acoustic source vibrating in a rigid planar baffle is found to be computationally intensive if the field values are computed sequentially. The temporal complexity of the model is firstly due to the large number of computations required to integrate over the surface area of an arbitrarily-shaped source and secondly, due to the volume of the acoustic field itself. Thus, the model is assessed and it's workload characterization derives directly from the data-level parallelism inherent in the computation of the acoustic field. Two high performance computing approaches are developed and lead to improvements in both the precision and efficiency of the model with computation speedups that are beyond theoretical expectations. A further reduction in temporal complexity is introduced as a result of the axial-symmetric properties of the acoustic fields. The result is a particularly useful tool for high performance simulation of 3-dimensional ultrasound fields generated by realistic sources in various fluid media.