Zoltan Data Management Service for Parallel Dynamic Applications

  • Authors:
  • Karen Devine;Erik Boman;Robert Heapby;Bruce Hendrickson;Courtenay Vaughan

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-;-;-

  • Venue:
  • Computing in Science and Engineering
  • Year:
  • 2002

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Abstract

The Zoltan library is a collection of data management services for parallel, unstructured, adaptive, and dynamic applications that is available as open-source software from www.cs.sandia.gov/zoltan. It simplifies the load-balancing, data movement, unstructured-communication, and memory usage difficulties that arise in dynamic applications such as adaptive finite-element methods, particle methods, and crash simulations. Zoltan's data-structure-neutral design also lets a wide range of applications use it without imposing restrictions on application data structures. Its object-based interface provides a simple and inexpensive way for application developers to use the library and researchers to make new capabilities available under a common interface.