PARALLEL SIMULATION OF LARGE DYNAMIC SYSTEM ON A PC CLUSTER: APPLICATION TO CLOTH SIMULATION

摘要

The authors first propose a strategy to parallelize the simulation of deformable objects based on a particle decomposition. They apply this strategy to cloth simulation and describe the implementation of Sappe (Simulation physique de textiles sur grAPPE de processeurs), a parallel cloth simulation, using the Athapascan parallel programming language. They present experiments with about half a million particles on a cluster of PCs showing good speedups. Then they combine this parallel simulation with the Net Juggler multidisplay visualization system.