Kevin Verma, Kamil Szewc, Robert Wille,
"Advanced Load Balancing for SPH Simulations on Multi-GPU Architectures"
: High Performance Extreme Computing Conference (HPEC), 2017
Original Titel:
Advanced Load Balancing for SPH Simulations on Multi-GPU Architectures
Sprache des Titels:
Englisch
Original Buchtitel:
High Performance Extreme Computing Conference (HPEC)
Original Kurzfassung:
Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) is a numerical
method for fluid flow modeling, in which the fluid is
discretized by a set of particles. SPH allows to model complex
scenarios, which are difficult or costly to measure in the real
world. This method has several advantages compared to other
approaches, but suffers from a huge numerical complexity. In
order to simulate real life phenomena, up to several hundred
millions of particles have to be considered. Hence, HPC methods
need to be leveraged to make SPH applicable for industrial applications.
Distributing the respective computations among different
GPUs to exploit massive parallelism is thereby particularly suited.
However, certain characteristics of SPH make it a non-trivial task
to properly distribute the respective workload. In this work, we
present a load balancing method for a CUDA-based industrial
SPH implementation on multi-GPU architectures. To that end,
dedicated memory handling schemes are introduced, which
reduce the synchronization overhead. Experimental evaluations
confirm the scalability and efficiency of the proposed methods.
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