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Performance Portable Graphics Processing Unit Acceleration of a High-Order Finite Element Multiphysics Application.

Authors :
Stitt, Thomas
Belcher, Kristi
Campos, Alejandro
Kolev, Tzanio
Mocz, Philip
Rieben, Robert N.
Skinner, Aaron
Tomov, Vladimir
Vargas, Arturo
Weiss, Kenneth
Source :
Journal of Fluids Engineering; Apr2024, Vol. 146 Issue 4, p1-18, 18p
Publication Year :
2024

Abstract

The Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) will soon have in place the El Capitan exascale supercomputer, based on advanced micro devices (AMD) graphics processing units (GPUs). As part of a multiyear effort under the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) Advanced Simulation and Computing (ASC) program, we have been developing MARBL, a next generation, performance portable multiphysics application based on high-order finite elements. In previous years, we successfully ported the Arbitrary Lagrangian–Eulerian (ALE), multimaterial, compressible flow capabilities of MARBL to NVIDIA GPUs as described in Vargas et al. (2022, “Matrix-Free Approaches for GPU Acceleration of a High-Order Finite Element Hydrodynamics Application Using MFEM, Umpire, and RAJA,” Int. J. High Perform. Comput. Appl., 36(4), pp. 492–509). In this paper, we describe our ongoing effort in extending marbl's GPU capabilities with additional physics, including multigroup radiation diffusion and thermonuclear burn for high energy density physics (HEDP) and fusion modeling. We also describe how our portability abstraction approach based on the raja Portability Suite and the MFEM finite element discretization library has enabled us to achieve high performance on AMD based GPUs with minimal effort in hardware-specific porting. Throughout this work, we highlight numerical and algorithmic developments that were required to achieve GPU performance. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Details

Language :
English
ISSN :
00982202
Volume :
146
Issue :
4
Database :
Supplemental Index
Journal :
Journal of Fluids Engineering
Publication Type :
Academic Journal
Accession number :
175840716
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.1115/1.4064493