A geometric multigrid solver on tsubame 2.0

Harald Köstler, Christian Feichtinger, Ulrich Rüde, Takayuki Aoki

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Abstract

Tsubame 2.0 is currently one of the largest installed GPU clusters and number 5 in the Top 500 list ranking the fastest supercomputers in the world. In order to make use of Tsubame, there is a need to adapt existing software design concepts to multi-GPU environments. We have developed a modular and easily extensible software framework called waLBerla that covers a wide range of applications ranging from particulate flows over free surface flows to nano fluids coupled with temperature simulations and medical imaging. In this article we report on our experiences to extend waLBerla in order to support geometric multigrid algorithms for the numerical solution of partial differential equations (PDEs) on multi-GPU clusters. We discuss the software and performance engineering concepts necessary to integrate efficient compute kernels into our waLBerla framework and show first weak and strong scaling results on Tsubame for up to 1029 GPUs for our multigrid solver.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationEfficient Algorithms for Global Optimization Methods in Computer Vision - International Dagstuhl Seminar, Revised Selected Papers
PublisherSpringer Verlag
Pages155-173
Number of pages19
ISBN (Print)9783642547737
DOIs
StatePublished - 2014
Externally publishedYes
Event2011 International Dagstuhl Seminar 11471 on Efficient Algorithms for Global Optimization Methods in Computer Vision - Dagstuhl Castle, Germany
Duration: 20 Nov 201125 Nov 2011

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume8293 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference2011 International Dagstuhl Seminar 11471 on Efficient Algorithms for Global Optimization Methods in Computer Vision
Country/TerritoryGermany
CityDagstuhl Castle
Period20/11/1125/11/11

Keywords

  • CUDA
  • GPGPU
  • Parallel multigrid solver
  • Tsubame 2.0
  • waLBerla

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