A flexible Patch-based lattice Boltzmann parallelization approach for heterogeneous GPU-CPU clusters

Parallel Computing

Volumn 37, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 536-549

  Feichtinger, Christian ^a   Habich, Johannes ^a   Köstler, Harald ^a   Hager, Georg ^a   Rüde, Ulrich ^a   Wellein, Gerhard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

CUDA; Heterogeneous computations; Lattice Boltzmann method; MPI

Indexed keywords

COST ANALYSIS; COURSE OF ACTION; CUDA; HARDWARE CONFIGURATIONS; HETEROGENEOUS COMPUTATION; HETEROGENEOUS SIMULATION; INFINIBAND CLUSTERS; LATTICE BOLTZMANN; LATTICE BOLTZMANN FLOW; LATTICE BOLTZMANN METHOD; MPI; PARALLEL COMPUTATION; PARALLEL EFFICIENCY; PARALLELIZATIONS; SOFTWARE FRAMEWORKS;

COST ACCOUNTING;

PROGRAM PROCESSORS;

EID: 80052035460     PISSN: 01678191     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.parco.2011.03.005     Document Type: Article

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