Load Balancing and Patch-Based Parallel Adaptive Mesh Refinement for Tsunami Simulation on Heterogeneous Platforms Using Xeon Phi Coprocessors
Chaulio R. Ferreira, Michael Bader · 2017
We present a patch-based approach for tsunami simulation with parallel adaptive mesh refinement on the Salomon supercomputer. The special architecture of Salomon, with two Intel Xeon CPUs (Haswell architecture) and two Intel Xeon Phi coprocessors (Knights Corner) per compute node, suggests truly heterogeneous load balancing instead of offload approaches, because host and accelerator achieve comparable performance for our simulations.