On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 9:18 AM, Ole Tange <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 4:14 PM, Rhys Ulerich <[email protected]> wrote: >>> So please write a few lines about the tasks you use it for - >>> especially if you have reason to believe you are one of the few doing >>> that kind of thing. >> >> Like others, I have used parallel to perform parameter sweeps for my >> scientific simulation code. I often use parallel as a poor man's >> batch system for collections of MPI jobs when I need to study grid >> refinements to verify expected numerical convergence rates. > > In what area of science do you run simulations for?
Computational fluid dynamics. More specifically, direct numerical simulation of the compressible Navier--Stokes equations. The production simulations require dedicated HPC resources, but I can run small MPI-parallel test problems on my workstation. - Rhys
