Performance engineering for the lattice Boltzmann method on GPGPUs: Architectural requirements and performance results

Computers and Fluids

Volumn 80, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 276-282

  Habich, J ^a   Feichtinger, C ^a   Kostler H ^a   Hager, G ^a   Wellein, G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Computational fluid dynamics; CUDA; GPGPU; HPC; Lattice Boltzmann method; Opencl; Parallelization; Performance modeling and engineering

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; DIGITAL ARITHMETIC; FLOW OF FLUIDS; FLOW SIMULATION; INCOMPRESSIBLE FLOW; KINETIC THEORY; PROGRAM PROCESSORS; TWO PHASE FLOW; ALGORITHMS; OPTIMIZATION;

CUDA; GPGPU; LATTICE BOLTZMANN METHOD; OPENCL; PARALLELIZATIONS; PERFORMANCE MODEL; HPC;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS;

EID: 84883091562     PISSN: 00457930     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compfluid.2012.02.013     Document Type: Article

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