Nonlinear Wave Mechanics
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I am collaborating with David Ketcheson, Aron Ahmadia and Kyle Mandli on nonlinear wave mechanics and the development of the PyClaw framework, of which PetClaw is the parallel extension. The PyClaw design is based upon a loosely-coupled model for simulation software, in which computational operations are wrapped in a higher level language, here Python, and spliced together. The glue in Python is numpy, a lightweight library which allows no-copy access across languages to multidimensionl arrays. With this, ClawPack could be joined to PETSc efficiently using only Python code. It took 100 lines of Python to parallelize PyClaw, subclassing only three classes. |
Papers
- We have written a paper describing the architecture of PyClaw, which is based on both PETSc and Clawpack. The simplicity, capability, and performance of this approach are demonstrated through application to example problems in shallow water flow, compressible flow and elasticity. We show excellent scaling up to 65,536 cores on KAUST's Shaheen BG/P.
- This paper was more focused on the parallel performance.