ABSTRACT
With a rapid increase in the problem size from thousands of points to millions of points, it is imperative to devise ever more efficient schemes for the FE mesh generation (MG). With a steady but rapid pace of advancement and upgrading since the emergence of modern computers, today’s micro-computers, PCs, are all equipped with more than one processor, and a standard machine with four cores and 16-GB memory is fairly common. Using one single processor for MG represents a pitiful 25% usage of the total capacity of the machine, and efficient parallel meshing schemes making full use of all the processors will simply boost the speed by more than four times, cutting down the generation time to one quarter of that by a serial process.
