Experiences with Industrial Crashworthiness Simulation Using the Portable, Message-Passing PAM-CRASH Code

摘要

This paper reports on work carried out within the extension of the ESPRIT Project CAMAS (EP6756) which provides a link to the Europort-1 Action (EP8421). The PAM-CRASH core-code migrated to distributed-memory parallel machines using the message-passing programming paradigm, has been extended to include all features necessary for a full, industrial front or off-set car-crash simulation. The paper includes a description of the salient features of the parallelization approaches and of the industrial benchmark models. Performance results will be presented for the following platforms: IBM SP1&2, Meiko CS-2, Parsytec GC PowerPlus.