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Removing the Barrier to Scalability in Parallel FMM

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science 2010-08-17 v1 Numerical Analysis Computational Physics

Abstract

The Fast Multipole Method (FMM) is well known to possess a bottleneck arising from decreasing workload on higher levels of the FMM tree [Greengard and Gropp, Comp. Math. Appl., 20(7), 1990]. We show that this potential bottleneck can be eliminated by overlapping multipole and local expansion computations with direct kernel evaluations on the finest level grid.

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@article{arxiv.1008.2410,
  title  = {Removing the Barrier to Scalability in Parallel FMM},
  author = {Matthew G. Knepley},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1008.2410},
  year   = {2010}
}

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11 pages, 2 figures