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Investigating Matrix Repartitioning to Address the Over- and Undersubscription Challenge for a GPU-based CFD Solver

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing 2025-10-10 v1 Software Engineering

Abstract

Modern high-performance computing (HPC) increasingly relies on GPUs, but integrating GPU acceleration into complex scientific frameworks like OpenFOAM remains a challenge. Existing approaches either fully refactor the codebase or use plugin-based GPU solvers, each facing trade-offs between performance and development effort. In this work, we address the limitations of plugin-based GPU acceleration in OpenFOAM by proposing a repartitioning strategy that better balances CPU matrix assembly and GPU-based linear solves. We present a detailed computational model, describe a novel matrix repartitioning and update procedure, and evaluate its performance on large-scale CFD simulations. Our results show that the proposed method significantly mitigates oversubscription issues, improving solver performance and resource utilization in heterogeneous CPU-GPU environments.

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@article{arxiv.2510.08536,
  title  = {Investigating Matrix Repartitioning to Address the Over- and Undersubscription Challenge for a GPU-based CFD Solver},
  author = {Gregor Olenik and Marcel Koch and Hartwig Anzt},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2510.08536},
  year   = {2025}
}

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2025 Workshop: HPC on Heterogeneous Hardware (H3)

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