We describe a parallel implementation of a compressible Lattice Boltzmann code on a multi-GPU cluster based on Nvidia Fermi processors. We analyze how to optimize the algorithm for GP-GPU architectures, describe the implementation choices that we have adopted and compare our performance results with an implementation optimized for latest generation multi-core CPUs. Our program runs at approximate to 30% of the double-precision peak performance of one GPU and shows almost linear scaling when run on the multi-GPU cluster.

A Multi-GPU Implementation of a D2Q37 Lattice Boltzmann Code

Scagliarini;Andrea;Toschi;Federico;
2012

Abstract

We describe a parallel implementation of a compressible Lattice Boltzmann code on a multi-GPU cluster based on Nvidia Fermi processors. We analyze how to optimize the algorithm for GP-GPU architectures, describe the implementation choices that we have adopted and compare our performance results with an implementation optimized for latest generation multi-core CPUs. Our program runs at approximate to 30% of the double-precision peak performance of one GPU and shows almost linear scaling when run on the multi-GPU cluster.
2012
Istituto Applicazioni del Calcolo ''Mauro Picone''
978-3-642-31463-6
Computational fluid-dynamics
Lattice Boltzmann methods
GP-GPUs computing
PERFORMANCE
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