Data-Parallel Mesh Connected Components Labeling and Analysis
Cyrus Harrison, Hank Childs, Kelly P. Gaither
Eurographics Symposium on Parallel Graphics and Visualization, 2011, pp. 131--140.
Abstract: We present a data-parallel algorithm for identifying and labeling the connected sub-meshes within a domaindecomposed 3D mesh. The identification task is challenging in a distributed-memory parallel setting because connectivity is transitive and the cells composing each sub-mesh may span many or all processors. Our algorithm employs a multi-stage application of the Union-find algorithm and a spatial partitioning scheme to efficiently merge information across processors and produce a global labeling of connected sub-meshes. Marking each vertex with its corresponding sub-mesh label allows us to isolate mesh features based on topology, enabling new analysis capabilities. We briefly discuss two specific applications of the algorithm and present results from a weak scaling study. We demonstrate the algorithm at concurrency levels up to 2197 cores and analyze meshes containing up to 68 billion cells.
Article URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.2312/EGPGV/EGPGV11/131-140
BibTeX format:
@inproceedings{Harrison:2011:DMC,
  author = {Cyrus Harrison and Hank Childs and Kelly P. Gaither},
  title = {Data-Parallel Mesh Connected Components Labeling and Analysis},
  booktitle = {Eurographics Symposium on Parallel Graphics and Visualization},
  pages = {131--140},
  year = {2011},
}
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