Massively Parallel Computing And TheBoundary Element Method

Massively parallel computing sytems belong to the classification SIMD, Single Instruction Multiple Data [1]. In such systems a very large number of relatively unsophisticated processors are connected together in some fashion and there is very rapid transfer of data between adjacent processors. Each processor receives the same instruction but works on its own data. Each processor performs a relatively simple task and for this reason the SIMD machine has a fine-grained parallelism.