Performance of a new CFD flow solver using a hybrid programming paradigm

Authors:
M. J. Berger;M. J. Aftosmis;D. D. Marshall;S. M. Murman
Affiliations:
Courant Institute, New York University, New York, NY 10012, USA and NASA Ames Research Center, MS T27B, Moffett Field, CA 94035, USA;NASA Ames Research Center, MS T27B, Moffett Field, CA 94035, USA;Aerospace Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332, USA;ELORET, MS T27B, Moffett Field, CA 94035, USA
Venue:
Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing
Year:
2005

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Abstract

This paper presents several algorithmic innovations and a hybrid programming style that lead to highly scalable performance using shared memory for a new computational fluid dynamics flow solver. This hybrid model is then converted to a strict message-passing implementation, and performance results for the two are compared. Results show that using this hybrid approach our OpenMP implementation is actually marginally faster than the MPI version, with parallel speedups of up to 599 out of 640 using OpenMP and 486 with MPI.