An Out-of-Core Method for CFD Simulation in Heterogeneous Environment
Wei Cao, Zheng Hua Wang, Chuan Fu Xu · Advanced materials research · 2013
In recent years, the highly parallel graphics processing unit (GPU) is rapidly gaining maturity as a powerful engine for high performance computer. However, in most computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulations, the computational capacity of CPU was ignored. In this paper, we propose a hybrid parallel programming model to utilize the computational capacity of both CPU and GPU. Considering the memory amount of CPU and GPU, we also propose an out-of-core method to increase the simulation scale on single node. The experiment results show that the programming model can utilize the computational capacity of both CPU and GPU efficiently and the out-of-core method can increase the simulation scale on single node.