This paper reports on our experience in solving large- scale fluid dynamics problems on the Connection Ma chine model CM_2. We have implemented a parallel version of the MacCormack scheme for the solution of the Navier-Stokes equations. By using triad floating point operations and reducing the number of interprocessor communications, we have achieved a sustained perfor mance rate of 1.42 GFLOPS.
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