Two-dimensional nonsteady viscous flow simulation on the Navier-Stokes Computer miniNode

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Abstract

The needs of large-scale scientific computation are outpacing the growth in performance of mainframe supercomputers. In particular, problems in fluid mechanics involving complex flow simulations require far more speed and capacity than that provided by current and proposed Class VI supercomputers. To address this concern, the Navier-Stokes Computer (NSC) was developed. The NSC is a parallel-processing machine, comprised of individual Nodes, each comparable in performance to current supercomputers. The global architecture is that of a hypercube, and a 128-Node NSC has been designed. New architectural features, such as a reconfigurable many-function ALU pipeline and a multifunction memory-ALU switch, have provided the capability to efficiently implement a wide range of algorithms. Efficient algorithms typically involve numerically intensive tasks, which often include conditional operations. These operations may be efficiently implemented on the NSC without, in general, sacrificing vector-processing speed. To illustrate the architecture, programming, and several of the capabilities of the NSC, the simulation of two-dimensional, nonsteady viscous flows on a prototype Node, called the miniNode, is presented.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)53-73
Number of pages21
JournalJournal of Scientific Computing
Volume1
Issue number1
DOIs
StatePublished - Mar 1986

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Software
  • General Engineering
  • Computational Mathematics
  • Theoretical Computer Science
  • Applied Mathematics
  • Numerical Analysis
  • Computational Theory and Mathematics

Keywords

  • Navier-Stokes equations
  • Node
  • hypercube
  • parallel processor
  • pipeline processor
  • reconfigurable
  • supercomputer
  • vector processor

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