Computer Science 335
Parallel Processing and High Performance Computing

Fall 2021, Siena College

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Agenda

• Announcements
  • Final Project progress reports next week
  • Some time in class on Monday for Lab 10: OpenMP Practice
• Scientific Computation
  • adaptivity and linked structures
  • computation on quadtrees
    • quadtrees
    • computing sequentially on a quadtree
    • sequential program design and implementation

Terminology

• adaptive computation
• mesh
• structured vs. unstructured mesh
• regions/volumes
• faces
• edges
• vertices
• elements
• adaptive refinement
• quadtree
• mesh partitioning
• quadrant, terminal quadrant, leaf quadrant
• visitor function
• callback function

Examples

• quadtree-jacobi: Jacobi iteration on a quadtree
• RPI SCOREC Parallel Unstructured Mesh Infrastructure