On the Use of a Many-core Processor for Computational Fluid Dynamics Simulations
2015 (English)In: Procedia Computer Science, E-ISSN 1877-0509, Vol. 51, p. 1403-1412Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]
The increased availability of modern embedded many-core architectures supporting floating-point operations in hardware makes them interesting targets in traditional high performance computing areas as well. In this paper, the Lattice Boltzmann Method (LBM) from the domain of Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) is evaluated on Adapteva’s Epiphany many-core architecture. Although the LBM implementation shows very good scalability and high floating-point efficiency in the lattice computations, current Epiphany hardware does not provide adequate amounts of either local memory or external memory bandwidth to provide a good foundation for simulation of the large problems commonly encountered in real CFD applications.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Amsterdam: Elsevier, 2015. Vol. 51, p. 1403-1412
Keywords [en]
Many-core, Epiphany, Computational Fluid Dynamics, Lattice Boltzmann
National Category
Computer Systems
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:hh:diva-29136DOI: 10.1016/j.procs.2015.05.348ISI: 000373939100143Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-84939142878OAI: oai:DiVA.org:hh-29136DiVA, id: diva2:845067
Conference
International Conference On Computational Science, ICCS 2015 – Computational Science at the Gates of Nature, Reykjavík, Iceland, 1-3 June, 2015
Projects
ESCHER
Funder
Knowledge Foundation
Note
This work was supported by the ESCHER project funded by the Swedish Knowledge foundation, and Volvo Penta AB, Gothenburg, Sweden
2015-08-102015-08-102022-02-10Bibliographically approved