Adaptive Mesh Fluid Simulations on GPU Export

@article{citeulike:6038785, abstract = {We describe an implementation of compressible inviscid fluid solvers with block-structured adaptive mesh refinement on Graphics Processing Units using NVIDIA's CUDA. We show that a class of high resolution shock capturing schemes can be mapped naturally on this architecture. Using the method of lines approach with the second order total variation diminishing Runge-Kutta time integration scheme, piecewise linear reconstruction, and a Harten-Lax-van Leer Riemann solver, we achieve an overall speedup of approximately 10 times faster execution on one graphics card as compared to a single core on the host computer. We attain this speedup in uniform grid runs as well as in problems with deep AMR hierarchies. Our framework can readily be applied to more general systems of conservation laws and extended to higher order shock capturing schemes. This is shown directly by an implementation of a magneto-hydrodynamic solver and comparing its performance to the pure hydrodynamic case. Finally, we also combined our CUDA parallel scheme with MPI to make the code run on GPU clusters. Close to ideal speedup is observed on up to four GPUs.}, archivePrefix = {arXiv}, author = {Wang, Peng and Abel, Tom and Kaehler, Ralf}, citeulike-article-id = {6038785}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://arxiv.org/abs/0910.5547}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://arxiv.org/pdf/0910.5547}, day = {29}, eprint = {0910.5547}, keywords = {code, simulations}, month = {Oct}, posted-at = {2009-10-30 16:35:47}, priority = {3}, title = {Adaptive Mesh Fluid Simulations on GPU}, url = {http://arxiv.org/abs/0910.5547}, year = {2009} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:6038785 L3 - citeulike-article-id:6038785 N2 - We describe an implementation of compressible inviscid fluid solvers with block-structured adaptive mesh refinement on Graphics Processing Units using NVIDIA's CUDA. We show that a class of high resolution shock capturing schemes can be mapped naturally on this architecture. Using the method of lines approach with the second order total variation diminishing Runge-Kutta time integration scheme, piecewise linear reconstruction, and a Harten-Lax-van Leer Riemann solver, we achieve an overall speedup of approximately 10 times faster execution on one graphics card as compared to a single core on the host computer. We attain this speedup in uniform grid runs as well as in problems with deep AMR hierarchies. Our framework can readily be applied to more general systems of conservation laws and extended to higher order shock capturing schemes. This is shown directly by an implementation of a magneto-hydrodynamic solver and comparing its performance to the pure hydrodynamic case. Finally, we also combined our CUDA parallel scheme with MPI to make the code run on GPU clusters. Close to ideal speedup is observed on up to four GPUs. TI - Adaptive Mesh Fluid Simulations on GPU KW - code KW - simulations AU - Wang, Peng AU - Abel, Tom AU - Kaehler, Ralf PY - 2009/Oct/29/ UR - http://arxiv.org/abs/0910.5547 ER -