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HPC Finite Element Software Development

SPModel Landscape Evolution

Computational mechanics software for High Performance Computing (HPC) environments is notoriously expensive to develop and maintain. HPC environments are a moving target with a short lifespan. Computational mechanics implementations are sensitive to the physics they model, the accuracy of the methods used and the scalability of their solvers.

VPAC's approach to software development for computational mechanics is to create an environment for interchanging physics and numeric methods software components. Cost efficiency and product sustainability is achieved by a high level of reuse. To that end we have developed a software platform, StGermain, to facilitate the technical aspects of this environment, as well as expertise and processes in numerical methods and software development (for both open and closed source applications).

A repercussion of this environment is the development of a continuously expanding scalable finite element toolbox.

Contact

For further information on the Advanced Computing services VPAC offers to the Geophysics sector, please contact geophysics@vpac.org or +61 3 9925 4645.

Featured Media

Selected case studies. See all 3 case studies for Geophysics.

  • Cuernos del Paine Mountains
    Underworld Modelling of Subduction Zones

    Underworld allows for development of model to accurately predict subduction zone shapes around the globe.

  • SPModel Landscape Evolution
    SPModel: Landscape Evolution in Parallel

    The modelling of landscape evolution, or geomorphology, is important because it allows us to understand how mountain ranges, river systems, and other landscape features came to be as they are and how

  • Jack Hills Rocks
    Plate Tectonic Recycling Models

    The project client required a means of modelling the formation and recycling of crustal material within the early Earth using an existing geodynamics code named Underworld.