A Comparative Study on Different Parallel Solvers for Nonlinear Analysis of Complex Structures

<table class="table-group" id="tab12"><tr><td><table class="table"><tr><td class="thead-hr" colspan="4"><hr/></td></tr><tr><td align="left">CPU machine</td><td align="center">32-core CPU</td><td align="center">Single-core CPU</td><td align="center">Single-core i5 CPU</td></tr><tr><td align="left" colspan="4"><hr/></td></tr><tr><td align="left">CPU method</td><td align="center">Parallel direct sparse</td><td align="center">Serial direct sparse</td><td align="center">Dynamic relaxation</td></tr><tr><td align="left" colspan="4"><hr/></td></tr><tr><td align="left">GPU speedup</td><td align="center">4.2</td><td align="center">40.3</td><td align="center">445</td></tr><tr class="table-tr"><td colspan="4"><hr class="tbody-hr"/></td></tr></table></td></tr></table>

Speedup of GPU580 versus different CPU machines and methods.

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Table 12: A Comparative Study on Different Parallel Solvers for Nonlinear Analysis of Complex Structures 