A PARALLELIZATION STRATEGY FOR THE DISCRETE TRANSFER RADIATION MODEL

An efficient strategy for the implementation of the discrete transfer radiation model on a parallel computer architecture is presented. The parallel version of the radiation model is evaluated by analyzing timi ng data for the computation of four test problems where the major para meters controlling numerical accuracy and computational cost are syste matically varied A semiempirical model for the parallel run time, cali brated using the timing data, is described. The model's range of appli cation is restricted to the IBM SP2 computer architecture; however, it could be recalibrated for any parallel computer.