Title
Large Scale GPU Accelerated PPMLR-MHD Simulations for Space Weather Forecast
Abstract
PPMLR-MHD is a new magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) model used to simulate the interactions of the solar wind with the magnetosphere, which has been proved to be the key element of the space weather cause-and-effect chain process from the Sun to Earth. Compared to existing MHD methods, PPMLR-MHD achieves the advantage of high order spatial accuracy and low numerical dissipation. However, the accuracy comes at a cost. On one hand, this method requires more intensive computation. On the other hand, more boundary data is subject to be transferred during the process of simulation. In this work, we present a parallel hybrid solution of the PPMLR-MHD model implemented using the computing capabilities of both CPUs and GPUs. We demonstrate that our optimized implementation alleviates the data transfer overhead by using GPU Direct technology and can scale up to 151 processes and achieve significant performance gains by distributing the workload among the CPUs and GPUs on Titan at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. The performance results show that our implementation is fast enough to carry out highly accurate MHD simulations in real time.
Year
DOI
Venue
2016
10.1109/CCGrid.2016.68
2016 16th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Grid Computing (CCGrid)
Keywords
DocType
Volume
CUDA,Space Weather Forecast,PPMLR-MHD,CUDA-aware MPI
Conference
abs/1607.02214
ISSN
ISBN
Citations 
2376-4414
978-1-5090-2454-4
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
1
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
XiangYu Guo125.71
Binbin Tang200.34
Jian Tao3517.96
PengLiuZhihui Du438348.74
PengLiuZhihui Du538348.74