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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Nov 7.
Published in final edited form as: Med Image Anal. 2007 Mar 1;11(2):10.1016/j.media.2006.11.002. doi: 10.1016/j.media.2006.11.002

Table 1.

Computational times associated with parallel implementation of the finite element model

Number of
processors
Total
time (s)
Precondition + iterative
solution for first time step (s)
Successive time
steps (#5) (s)
  2 853.7 154.3 623.4
  4 392.2   51.7 212.5
  6 202.6   32.2 117.0
  8 140.0   23.9   86.0
10 138.3   23.3   85.1
12 117.5   19.0   70.5
14 130.2   16.6   81.8
16 116.7   20.7   67.5