General informations
Introduction
This chapter discusses the establishment of a parametric distribution in Flux for Linux & Windows OS on a single machine or on a cluster. The parametric distributed computing allows the user to save computation time while distributing several independent configurations of a same Flux project. For example a Magnetic Transient project may be distributed regarding different values of parameters such as the geometrical parameters (size, shape etc...) or physical parameters (supply current values, speed...) varying in the scenario. Several projects will run at the same time simulating all those configurations.
Principles
The parametric distribution allows the user to save computation time by parallelizing several independent configurations of a finite element problem with different values of I/O or geometric parameters varying in the scenario instead of running them sequentially. To set-up a distributed computation, a primary Flux project is mandatory in order to compute all its sub-projects having an independent configuration.
Figure 1. Picture illustrating a parametric distribution, a primary Flux is controlling several secondary Flux with independent configurations of geometric or I/O parameters.