TY - JOUR
T1 - AFiD-GPU
T2 - A versatile Navier–Stokes solver for wall-bounded turbulent flows on GPU clusters
AU - Zhu, Xiaojue
AU - Phillips, Everett
AU - Spandan, Vamsi
AU - Donners, John
AU - Ruetsch, Gregory
AU - Romero, Joshua
AU - Ostilla-Mónico, Rodolfo
AU - Yang, Yantao
AU - Lohse, Detlef
AU - Verzicco, Roberto
AU - Fatica, Massimiliano
AU - Stevens, Richard J.A.M.
PY - 2018/8/1
Y1 - 2018/8/1
N2 - The AFiD code, an open source solver for the incompressible Navier–Stokes equations (http://www.afid.eu), has been ported to GPU clusters to tackle large-scale wall-bounded turbulent flow simulations. The GPU porting has been carried out in CUDA Fortran with the extensive use of kernel loop directives (CUF kernels) in order to have a source code as close as possible to the original CPU version; just a few routines have been manually rewritten. A new transpose scheme has been devised to improve the scaling of the Poisson solver, which is the main bottleneck of incompressible solvers. For large meshes the GPU version of the code shows good strong scaling characteristics, and the wall-clock time per step for the GPU version is an order of magnitude smaller than for the CPU version of the code. Due to the increased performance and efficient use of memory, the GPU version of AFiD can perform simulations in parameter ranges that are unprecedented in thermally-driven wall-bounded turbulence. To verify the accuracy of the code, turbulent Rayleigh–Bénard convection and plane Couette flow are simulated and the results are in excellent agreement with the experimental and computational data that have been published in literature. Program summary: Program Title: AFiD-GPU Program Files doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.17632/rwjdg7ry66.1 Licensing provisions: MIT Programming language: Fortran 90, CUDA Fortran, MPI External routines: PGI, CUDA Toolkit, FFTW3, HDF5 Nature of problem: Solving the three-dimensional Navier–Stokes equations coupled with a scalar field in a cubic box bounded between two walls and with periodic boundary conditions in the horizontal directions. Solution method: Second order finite difference method for spatial discretization, third order Runge–Kutta scheme in combination with Crank–Nicolson for the implicit terms for time advancement, two dimensional pencil distributed MPI parallelization, GPU accelerated routines. Additional comments including restrictions and unusual features: The code is available and supported on https://github.com/PhysicsofFluids/AFiD_GPU_opensource.
AB - The AFiD code, an open source solver for the incompressible Navier–Stokes equations (http://www.afid.eu), has been ported to GPU clusters to tackle large-scale wall-bounded turbulent flow simulations. The GPU porting has been carried out in CUDA Fortran with the extensive use of kernel loop directives (CUF kernels) in order to have a source code as close as possible to the original CPU version; just a few routines have been manually rewritten. A new transpose scheme has been devised to improve the scaling of the Poisson solver, which is the main bottleneck of incompressible solvers. For large meshes the GPU version of the code shows good strong scaling characteristics, and the wall-clock time per step for the GPU version is an order of magnitude smaller than for the CPU version of the code. Due to the increased performance and efficient use of memory, the GPU version of AFiD can perform simulations in parameter ranges that are unprecedented in thermally-driven wall-bounded turbulence. To verify the accuracy of the code, turbulent Rayleigh–Bénard convection and plane Couette flow are simulated and the results are in excellent agreement with the experimental and computational data that have been published in literature. Program summary: Program Title: AFiD-GPU Program Files doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.17632/rwjdg7ry66.1 Licensing provisions: MIT Programming language: Fortran 90, CUDA Fortran, MPI External routines: PGI, CUDA Toolkit, FFTW3, HDF5 Nature of problem: Solving the three-dimensional Navier–Stokes equations coupled with a scalar field in a cubic box bounded between two walls and with periodic boundary conditions in the horizontal directions. Solution method: Second order finite difference method for spatial discretization, third order Runge–Kutta scheme in combination with Crank–Nicolson for the implicit terms for time advancement, two dimensional pencil distributed MPI parallelization, GPU accelerated routines. Additional comments including restrictions and unusual features: The code is available and supported on https://github.com/PhysicsofFluids/AFiD_GPU_opensource.
KW - Finite-difference scheme
KW - GPU
KW - Parallelization
KW - Plane Couette flow
KW - Rayleigh–Bénard convection
KW - Turbulent flow
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85045850157&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/j.cpc.2018.03.026
DO - 10.1016/j.cpc.2018.03.026
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85045850157
SN - 0010-4655
VL - 229
SP - 199
EP - 210
JO - Computer physics communications
JF - Computer physics communications
ER -