“…The measured speedup values are close to those attained for relevant numbers of nodes on high latency 1 Gbps Ethernet networks as in parallel performance studies of DEM software. 9,15 Figure 2B presents weak scalability of the parallel software, when the increasingly larger problems are solved proportionally increasing the number of containers. Thus, benchmarks of 256,000, 500,000, 1,000,188, and 1,997,199 particles are solved on configurations of containers 1 × 4, 2 × 4, 4 × 4, and (5 + 3) × 4, respectively.…”