Different computation paradigms including sequential and parallel programming each with the corresponding discretised domain.

Different computation paradigms including sequential and parallel programming each with the corresponding discretised domain shown on the left. For sequential programming, the code performs two tasks A and B in a sequential manner, on a single thread which has access to all of the computer’s memory. When the same code is executed in parallel relying on OpenMP, each processor of the computer concurrently carries out a part of tasks A and B so that the compute wall clock time is shorter. If relying on MPI-based parallelisation, the domain is usually broken up so that each thread ‘knows’ only a part of the domain. Tasks A and B are also executed in parallel by all the CPUs, but now, there is a distributed architecture of processors and memory interlinked by a dedicated network. The Scientific colour map ‘batlow‘ is used to represent individual domain parts to all readers.

  • Creator: Fabio Crameri
  • This version: 11.11.2021
  • License: Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0)
  • Specific citation: This graphic by Fabio Crameri from van Zelst et al. (2021) is available via the open-access s-Ink repository.
  • Related reference: van Zelst, I., F. Crameri, A.E. Pusok, A.C. Glerum, J. Dannberg, C. Thieulot (2021, in review), 101 Geodynamic modelling: How to design, carry out, and interpret numerical studies, Solid Earth Discuss. [preprint], doi:10.5194/se-2021-14
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