Abstract
Currently, the finite element method (FEM) is used extensively to solve various complex engineering problems. The MPP environments have been implemented in order to carry out large-scale simulations efficiently and accurately. Control parallel programs implementing the message passing libraries are considered to be superior over the data parallel programs written in languages such as the HPF in that they may be used on diverse MPP environments. Furthermore, fine tuning of the programs by the developers is possible which lead to higher parallel efficiency. In this study, in order to develop a parallel analysis code for large-scale computations with high computational efficiency, data structures and methods of communications were newly proposed and developed based on the EBE-FEM. This type of approach is believed to be effective from the stand point of necessary amount of data storage and is also believed to be suited for parallelization.
