Title
A parallel simulator for multibody systems based on group equations
Abstract
Multibody systems consist of a set of components connected through some joints, where the movement of the system is determined by those of its components. Their design is computationally demanding, and the group equations formulation facilitates the application of parallelism to reduce the simulation time. A simulator for the kinematic analysis of multibody systems on up-to-date computational nodes (multicore \(\hbox {CPU}+\hbox {GPU}\)) is presented. The movement of the components is simulated by repeatedly solving independent linear systems working on sparse matrices. The appropriate selection of the linear algebra library to be used and the degree of parallelism at each level (explicit with OpenMP and implicit with multithread libraries) help obtain important reductions in the simulation time.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.1007/s11227-018-2602-4
The Journal of Supercomputing
Keywords
Field
DocType
Multicore, GPU, Linear algebra libraries, Multilevel parallelism, Multibody systems
Linear algebra,Parallel simulation,Kinematics,Linear system,Degree of parallelism,Computer science,Parallel computing,Multi-core processor,Sparse matrix
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
75
SP3
1573-0484
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
1
0.39
1
Authors
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
José-Carlos Cano121.05
Javier Cuenca214522.48
Domingo Giménez318033.64
Mariano Saura-Sánchez410.72
Pablo Segado-Cabezos521.05