FIRE_SERIAL
Forest Fire Simulation, Serial Version


FIRE_SERIAL, a MATLAB program which simulates a forest fire over a rectangular array of trees, starting at a single random location. It is intended as a starting point for the development of a parallel version.

Licensing:

The computer code and data files made available on this web page are distributed under the GNU LGPL license.

Languages:

FIRE_SERIAL is available in a C version and a C++ version and a FORTRAN90 version and a MATLAB version and a Python version.

Related Data and Programs:

FFT_SERIAL, a MATLAB program which demonstrates the computation of a Fast Fourier Transform, and is intended as a starting point for developing a parallel version using OpenMP.

fire_serial_test

HEATED_PLATE, a MATLAB program which solves the steady state heat equation in a 2D rectangular region, and is intended as a starting point for implementing an OpenMP parallel version.

MD, a MATLAB program which carries out a molecular dynamics simulation, and is intended as a starting point for implementing an OpenMP parallel version.

POISSON_SERIAL, a MATLAB program which computes an approximate solution to the Poisson equation in a rectangle, and is intended as the starting point for the creation of a parallel version.

PRIME_SERIAL, a MATLAB program which counts the number of primes between 1 and N, intended as a starting point for the creation of a parallel version.

QUAD_SERIAL, a MATLAB program which approximates an integral using a quadrature rule, and is intended as a starting point for parallelization exercises.

QUAD2D_SERIAL, a MATLAB program which approximates an integral over a 2D region using a product quadrature rule, and is intended as a starting point for parallelization exercises.

SEARCH_SERIAL, a MATLAB program which searches integers between A and B for a value J such that F(J) = C, intended as a starting point for the creation of a parallel version.

Reference:

  1. Peter Arbenz, Wesley Petersen,
    Introduction to Parallel Computing - A practical guide with examples in C,
    Oxford University Press,
    ISBN: 0-19-851576-6,
    LC: QA76.58.P47.
  2. Rohit Chandra, Leonardo Dagum, Dave Kohr, Dror Maydan, Jeff McDonald, Ramesh Menon,
    Parallel Programming in OpenMP,
    Morgan Kaufmann, 2001,
    ISBN: 1-55860-671-8,
    LC: QA76.642.P32.
  3. Barbara Chapman, Gabriele Jost, Ruud vanderPas, David Kuck,
    Using OpenMP: Portable Shared Memory Parallel Processing,
    MIT Press, 2007,
    ISBN13: 978-0262533027,
    LC: QA76.642.C49.

Source Code:


Last revised on 21 January 2019.