Published 1996 | Version v1
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Parallel acceleration and rebalancing schemes for solving transport problems using PVM

Creators

  • 1. Centre de Recherches Mathematiques, Univ. de Montreal, Montreal, Quebec (Canada)
  • 2. Inst. de Genie Nucleaire, Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal, Montreal, Quebec (Canada)

Description

In this paper, parallelization for CP calculation and multigroup flux computation are presented. Implementation of acceleration and neutron rebalancing strategies is also investigated. Particular techniques pertinent to the two-step energy/space iterative process of solving a multigroup transport equation are described. The parallel performance is studied in cases where the cyclic tracking technique is used to integrate CP. Parallelization is achieved by distributing either different energy groups or different regions on set of processors. These algorithms were tested on 4 processors IBM SP-2, 4 processors SPARC 2000 as well as 8 processors SPARC 1000 using the public domain PVM library. Typical run times are provided for unit cell calculations. (author)

Part of:
Simulation methods in nuclear engineering

Additional details

Publishing Information

Publisher
Canadian Nuclear Society
Imprint Place
Toronto, Ontario (Canada)
ISBN
0-919784-47-X
Imprint Title
Simulation methods in nuclear engineering
Imprint Pagination
2 v.
Journal Page Range
(v.1) [16 p.]

Conference

Title
5. International conference on simulation methods in nuclear engineering
Dates
8-11 Sep 1996
Place
Montreal, PQ (Canada)

INIS

Country of Publication
Canada
Country of Input or Organization
Canada
INIS RN
33018557
Subject category
S22: GENERAL STUDIES OF NUCLEAR REACTORS; S99: GENERAL AND MISCELLANEOUS;
Resource subtype / Literary indicator
Conference
Descriptors DEI
ALGORITHMS; LATTICE PARAMETERS; MULTIGROUP THEORY; NEUTRON TRANSPORT; NUMERICAL SOLUTION; PARALLEL PROCESSING; REACTOR LATTICES
Descriptors DEC
MATHEMATICAL LOGIC; NEUTRAL-PARTICLE TRANSPORT; NEUTRON TRANSPORT THEORY; PROGRAMMING; RADIATION TRANSPORT; TRANSPORT THEORY

Optional Information

Notes
10 refs., 3 tabs., 5 figs.