Supercomputing IBM AIX

oevermann · October 21, 2005, 05:34

I would like to use OpenFOAM on an IBM pSeries 690 parallel supercomputer with AIX compilers installed.
Questions:
1) Has anybody experience with OpenFOAM on such a system?
2) How good is the parallel performance of OpenFOAM on distributed and/or non-distributed memory machines and is it somewhere documented (would be usefull/neccessary for me to get an account and installation support on the machine)?

Thanks!

mattijs · October 21, 2005, 13:41

2) the parallel performance on these machines with a good interconnect network is very good and basically limited by the quality of the decomposition. You will probably want to use the native MPI instead of lam.

October 21, 2005, 05:34	I would like to use OpenFOAM o	#1
oevermann New Member Michael Oevermann Join Date: Mar 2009 Posts: 15 Rep Power: 17	I would like to use OpenFOAM on an IBM pSeries 690 parallel supercomputer with AIX compilers installed. Questions: 1) Has anybody experience with OpenFOAM on such a system? 2) How good is the parallel performance of OpenFOAM on distributed and/or non-distributed memory machines and is it somewhere documented (would be usefull/neccessary for me to get an account and installation support on the machine)? Thanks!

October 21, 2005, 13:41	2) the parallel performance on	#2
mattijs Senior Member Mattijs Janssens Join Date: Mar 2009 Posts: 1,419 Rep Power: 26	2) the parallel performance on these machines with a good interconnect network is very good and basically limited by the quality of the decomposition. You will probably want to use the native MPI instead of lam.

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