Parallel implementation on the ICAP/3090 of a BEM formulation for fractional operator modeled viscoelastodynamic structures

A formulation of the boundary element method (BEM) for dynamic analysis of 3-D viscoelastic structures modeled by the fractional operator constitutive equations is reviewed. The ICAP/3090 is a large grain parallel research computer that increases still further the level of parallelism provided by the IBM ES/3090 2 family of parallel vector computers. The ICAP/3090 is described and the parallel numerical implementation of the BEM formulation on this machine is discussed. Computational results from and parallel performance of the code are included.