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Towards Accelerated Computation of Atmospheric Equations using CUDA

ŠIMEK Václav, DVOŘÁK Radim, ZBOŘIL František V. and KUNOVSKÝ Jiří. Towards Accelerated Computation of Atmospheric Equations using CUDA. In: Proceedings of Eleventh International Conference on Computer Modelling and Simulation. Cambridge: IEEE Computer Society, 2009, pp. 449-454. ISBN 978-0-7695-3593-7.
Czech title
Možnosti urychlení výpočtu atmosférických rovnic pomocí rozhraní CUDA
Type
conference paper
Language
english
Authors
Keywords

CUDA, GPU, advection-diffusion equation, partial differential equation, Runge-Kutta, CFD

Abstract

Main objective of this paper is to outline possible ways how to achieve a substantial acceleration in case of advection-diffusion equation (A-DE) calculation, which is commonly used for a description of the pollutant behavior in atmosphere. A-DE is a kind of partial differential equation (PDE) and in general case it is usually solved by numerical integration due to its high complexity. These types of calculations are time consuming thus the main idea of our work is to adopt CUDA platform and commodity GPU card to do the calculations in a faster way. The solution is based on method of lines with 4th order Runge-Kutta scheme to handle the integration. As a matter of fact, the selected approach involves number of auxiliary variables and thus the memory management is critical in order to achieve desired performance. We have implemented several possible solutions that use different memory access schemes. Detailed evaluation is provided in this paper where the obtained results show a tremendous processing speed up in comparison to CPU.

Published
2009
Pages
449-454
Proceedings
Proceedings of Eleventh International Conference on Computer Modelling and Simulation
Conference
11th International Conference on Computer Modelling and Simulation, Cambridge, GB
ISBN
978-0-7695-3593-7
Publisher
IEEE Computer Society
Place
Cambridge, GB
DOI
UT WoS
000271899900080
BibTeX
@INPROCEEDINGS{FITPUB8885,
   author = "V\'{a}clav \v{S}imek and Radim Dvo\v{r}\'{a}k and V. Franti\v{s}ek Zbo\v{r}il and Ji\v{r}\'{i} Kunovsk\'{y}",
   title = "Towards Accelerated Computation of Atmospheric Equations using CUDA",
   pages = "449--454",
   booktitle = "Proceedings of Eleventh International Conference on Computer Modelling and Simulation",
   year = 2009,
   location = "Cambridge, GB",
   publisher = "IEEE Computer Society",
   ISBN = "978-0-7695-3593-7",
   doi = "10.1109/UKSIM.2009.25",
   language = "english",
   url = "https://www.fit.vut.cz/research/publication/8885"
}
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