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Record W2317200477 · doi:10.15514/ispras-2012-22-14

On Optimizing OpenFOAM GPU Solvers

2012· article· en· W2317200477 on OpenAlexaboutno aff
A. Monakov

Bibliographic record

VenueProceedings of the Institute for System Programming of RAS · 2012
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldComputer Science
TopicParallel Computing and Optimization Techniques
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsPreconditionerComputer scienceParallel computingPortingCUDAConjugate gradient methodComputational sciencePolygon meshIterative methodAlgorithmComputer graphics (images)SoftwareOperating system

Abstract

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The paper presents preliminary research on improving performance of CFD simulations in OpenFOAM via offloading parts of computations (specifically, solution of linear systems) to a graphics accelerator (GPU). We present a short review of OpenFOAM package and describe porting conjugate gradient method to the GPU architecture using CUDA programming model. Porting the basic algorithm is straightforward, however care should be taken to avoid unnecessary copying over PCI-Express bus. Efficient preconditioning on the GPU is then discussed. We use approximate inverse preconditioning, which can be implemented with good parallelism on the GPU. To amortize the cost of preparing the preconditioner, we allow reuse of preconditioners on the GPU and compute them on the CPU in a helper thread asynchronously. We mention several optimization opportunities: reordering the preconditioner to upper-left triangular form so that CUDA blocks multiplying by denser parts of preconditiner factors are scheduled first; using single-precision storage for the preconditioner to save memory bandwidth; reordering the mesh with nested dissection method from Metis library and using mixed-precision iteration for the conjugate gradient method. Preliminary performance testing results show performance improvement starting from 64000-cell meshes and reaching 2x for a 1-million cell mesh for a non-parallel run. As future work we mention support for parallel runs with MPI, research of other solvers such as multigrid, BiCGStab and IDR, and choosing drop tolerance automatically for the AINV preconditioner.

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Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Theoretical or conceptual · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Methods · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.961
Threshold uncertainty score0.511

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.001
Open science0.0010.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.022
GPT teacher head0.262
Teacher spread0.240 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designTheoretical or conceptual
Domainnot available
GenreMethods

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