Performance Evaluation of Parallel Large-Scale Lattice Boltzmann Applications on Three Supercomputing Architectures

Pohl T, Thürey N, Deserno F, Rüde U, Lammers P, Wellein G, Zeiser T (2004)


Publication Type: Conference contribution

Publication year: 2004

Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.

Edited Volumes: IEEE/ACM SC2004 Conference, Proceedings

Pages Range: 1-13

Conference Proceedings Title: Supercomputing, 2004: Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE SC2004 Conference

Event location: Pittsburgh, PA, USA

ISBN: 0-7695-2153-3

URI: http://dl.acm.org/ft_gateway.cfm?id=1049965&ftid=310446&dwn=1&CFID=475065051&CFTOKEN=96852916

DOI: 10.1109/SC.2004.37

Abstract

Computationally intensive programs with moderate communication requirements such as CFD codes suffer from the standard slow interconnects of commodity "off the shelf" (COTS) hardware. We will introduce different large-scale applications of the Lattice Boltzmann Method (LBM) in fluid dynamics, material science, and chemical engineering and present results of the parallel performance on different architectures. It will be shown that a high speed communication network in combination with an efficient CPU is mandatory in order to achieve the required performance. An estimation of the necessary CPU count to meet the performance of 1 TFlop/s will be given as well as a prediction as to which architecture is the most suitable for LBM. Finally, ratios of costs to application performance for tailored HPC systems and COTS architectures will be presented. © 2004 IEEE.

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APA:

Pohl, T., Thürey, N., Deserno, F., Rüde, U., Lammers, P., Wellein, G., & Zeiser, T. (2004). Performance Evaluation of Parallel Large-Scale Lattice Boltzmann Applications on Three Supercomputing Architectures. In Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (Eds.), Supercomputing, 2004: Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE SC2004 Conference (pp. 1-13). Pittsburgh, PA, USA: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc..

MLA:

Pohl, Thomas, et al. "Performance Evaluation of Parallel Large-Scale Lattice Boltzmann Applications on Three Supercomputing Architectures." Proceedings of the Supercomputing Conference '04, Pittsburgh, PA, USA Ed. Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2004. 1-13.

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