Title
Optimisation of the two-dimensional hydraulic model LISFOOD-FP for CPU architecture.
Abstract
Flood inundation models are increasingly used for a wide variety of river and coastal management applications. Nevertheless, the computational effort to run these models remains a substantial constraint on their application. In this study four developments to the LISFLOOD-FP 2D flood inundation model have been documented that: 1) refine the parallelisation of the model; 2) reduce the computational burden of dry cells; 3) reduce the data movements between CPU and RAM; and 4) vectorise the core numerical solver. The value of each of these developments in terms of compute time and parallel efficiency was tested on 12 test cases. For realistic test cases, improvements in single core performance of between 4.2x and 8.4x were achieved, which when combined with parallelisation on 16 cores resulted in computation times 34-60x shorter than previous LISFLOOD-FP models on one core. Results were compared to a sample of commercial models for context.
Year
DOI
Venue
2018
10.1016/j.envsoft.2018.05.011
Environmental Modelling & Software
Keywords
Field
DocType
Flood inundation modelling,HPC,LISFLOOD-FP,Parallelisation,Vectorisation
Single-core,Hydraulics,Computer science,Parallel computing,Cpu architecture,Test case,Solver,Flood myth,Management science,Computation
Journal
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
107
1364-8152
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
3
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Jeffrey C. Neal18911.01
Toby Dunne200.34
Chris Sampson300.68
A. Smith4163.23
Paul D. Bates516415.78