Test bench for distributed dynamic load balancing algorithms with local communications

Parallel implementation of iterative methods on regular meshes often requires static or dynamic load balancing. To study a load balancing algorithm it is important to perform versatile testing on a variety of application problems of given class, on different hardware configuration and input data sets. In the paper a software test bench is introduced. The purpose of the bench is to automate such testing. It allows to describe an application problem and to utilize user load balancing algorithm to perform tests on a multicomputer. The result of such testing is an information on the load algorithm's performance.