PRELIMINARY PERFORMANCE RESULTS OF THE MASSIVE PARALLEL AIRCRAFT-EULER-METHOD

The Aircraft Euler Method, so-called AIRPLANE code, is a finite elemen t based technique for solving the Euler equations combined with a meth od for constructing tetrahedral meshes. The attractivity of this appro ach along with the demand of shortened turnaround times motivate a mas sively parallel implementation. The numerical method is described and the guidelines for the parallelization strategy are outlined. The mass ively parallel realization is carried out with PARMACS as a message pa ssing programming environment. Performance results are presented on di fferent massive parallel platforms considering a data set of computati onal meshes of different size. However, these results have to be regar ded as preliminary since no access to the modern massively parallel co mputers could be arranged so far.