FLOW-3D/MP 4.2 with Hybrid MPI-OpenMP Released by Flow Science

Nov. 2, 2011 - PRLog -- Flow Science, Inc. announces the availability of a new release of FLOW-3D/MP, the distributed memory version of its flagship CFD software, FLOW-3D. FLOW-3D/MP v4.2 features hybrid parallelization that incorporates MPI and OpenMP architecture and offers users a substantial increase in performance with scaling to as many as 256 cores and runtime improvements of as much as 60x over the comparable FLOW-3D release. The high performance computing software features the following benefits:

•   Developed for the latest multi-core architecture
•   Increased speed-up and accuracy, using fewer mesh blocks and reduced MPI communication
•   Directional decomposition, improved performance with thread scheduling and dynamic thread balancing
•   Scaling up to 256 cores

The physical models in FLOW-3D/MP 4.2 are based on FLOW-3D v9.4. Read a complete list of FLOW-3D/MP 4.2 features at: http://www.flow3d.com/pdfs/brochures/WEB-FLOW-3D-MP-v4.2-Features.pdf.

FLOW-3D/MP, first released by Flow Science in 2006, uses multi-block methodology to decompose the computational domain into blocks, which are then distributed among the nodes in a cluster. FLOW-3D/MP v4.2 has been tested extensively on both Windows (Server 2008 and 2008 R2) and Linux systems (RHEL 4 & 5 and SUSE 10 &11). Read more about FLOW-3D/MP v4.2’s high performance computing capabilities at: http://www.flow3d.com/mp.

Flow Science has commenced shipment of this new release to FLOW-3D/MP customers under maintenance contracts.

This press release can be viewed online at: http://www.flow3d.com/about/pr/2011/flow3d-mp-hybrid-mpi-....

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Flow Science, Inc. is a privately-held software company specializing in transient, free-surface CFD modeling software for industrial and scientific applications worldwide. Flow Science has distributors for FLOW-3D sales and support in nations throughout the Americas, Europe, Asia and Australia. Flow Science is located in Santa Fe, New Mexico and can be found on the internet at http://www.flow3d.com.