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In this work, we propose an adaptive geometric multigrid method for the solution of large-scale finite cell flow problems. The finite cell method seeks to circumvent the need for a boundary-conforming mesh through the embedding of the…
Writing high performance solvers for engineering applications is a delicate task. These codes are often developed on an application to application basis, highly optimized to solve a certain problem. Here, we present our work on developing a…
Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) is increasingly used to study blood flows in patient-specific arteries for understanding certain cardiovascular diseases. The techniques work quite well for relatively simple problems, but need…
GPUs offer several times the floating point performance and memory bandwidth of current standard two socket CPU servers, e.g. NVIDIA C2070 vs. Intel Xeon Westmere X5650. The lattice Boltzmann method has been established as a flow solver in…
This paper presents a heuristic for finding the optimum number of CUDA streams by using tools common to the modern AI-oriented approaches and applied to the parallel partition algorithm. A time complexity model for the GPU realization of…
Exascale High Performance Computing (HPC) represents a tremendous opportunity to push the boundaries of Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD), but despite the consolidated trend towards the use of Graphics Processing Units (GPUs),…
Manufacturers have been developing new graphics processing unit (GPU) nodes with large capacity, high bandwidth memory and very high bandwidth intra-node interconnects. This enables moving large amounts of data between GPUs on the same node…
The immersed boundary method (IB) is an elegant way to fully couple the motion of a fluid and deformations of an immersed elastic structure. In that vein, the IB2d software allows for expedited explorations of fluid-structure interaction…
We present a scalable solution method based on an alternating direction method of multipliers and graphics processing units (GPUs) for rapidly computing and tracking a solution of alternating current optimal power flow (ACOPF) problem. Such…
Simulating spatiotemporal turbulence with high fidelity remains a cornerstone challenge in computational fluid dynamics (CFD) due to its intricate multiscale nature and prohibitive computational demands. Traditional approaches typically…
In the present study, a discrete forcing Immersed Boundary Method (IBM) is proposed for the numerical simulation of high-speed flow problems including heat exchange. The flow field is governed by the compressible Navier-Stokes equations,…
Path integral Monte Carlo (PIMC) and path integral molecular dynamics (PIMD) provide the golden standard for the ab initio simulations of identical particles. In this work, we achieved significant GPU acceleration based on PIMD, which is…
We present the implementation and validation of an immersed boundary volume penalization method in the computational fluid dynamics solver CODA (from ONERA, DLR, and Airbus). Our goal is to model and simulate turbulent fluid flows in…
Evaluating high-dimensional integrals via deep hierarchical recurrences is a dominant cost in quantum chemistry. While CPUs manage these efficiently, GPUs suffer a critical mismatch: limited per-thread memory is quickly overwhelmed by an…
Stencil computations are widely used in HPC applications. Today, many HPC platforms use GPUs as accelerators. As a result, understanding how to perform stencil computations fast on GPUs is important. While implementation strategies for…
For computational fluid dynamics (CFD) applications with a large number of grid points/cells, parallel computing is a common efficient strategy to reduce the computational time. How to achieve the best performance in the modern…
This documentation is designed for beginners in Graphics Processing Unit (GPU)-programming and who want to get familiar with OpenACC and OpenMP offloading models. Here we present an overview of these two programming models as well as of the…
The present panorama of HPC architectures is extremely heterogeneous, ranging from traditional multi-core CPU processors, supporting a wide class of applications but delivering moderate computing performance, to many-core GPUs, exploiting…
The number of cores on graphical computing units (GPUs) is reaching thousands nowadays, whereas the clock speed of processors stagnates. Unfortunately, constraint programming solvers do not take advantage yet of GPU parallelism. One reason…
High fidelity Computational Fluid Dynamics simulations are generally associated with large computing requirements, which are progressively acute with each new generation of supercomputers. However, significant research efforts are required…