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COBEM 2017
24th ABCM International Congress of Mechanical Engineering
Finite Element Analysis using ARM Cluster
Submission Author:
Pedro Mei Antunes , SP , Brazil
Co-Authors:
Marco Bittencourt, Pedro Mei Antunes
Presenter: Pedro Mei Antunes
doi://10.26678/ABCM.COBEM2017.COB17-2702
Abstract
The concept of green computer is an important initiative to keep our environment clean and safe. Following this idea we aim to apply high performance computing and data manipulation to deal with numerical simulation of structural problems. For this purpose, we assembled an ARM cluster with 8 Odroids C2 cards equipped with ARM® Cortex®-A53(ARMv8) 1.5Ghz quad core CPUs, 2 Gbytes of DDR3 SDRAM and 32 Gbytes MicroSD card, a router and a power supply. The cluster has lower cost and energy consumption, easy portability, accessibility and cooling passive environment, differently from the conventional clusters. We present comparisons of cost, energy and processing time for the ARM and standard clusters when running the (hp)2 FEM software, based on the object-oriented paradigm in C++ and high-order finite elements, for structural applications.
Keywords
Finite Element Method, High-Performance Computing., Green Computing, ARM, Computational simulation
