The Possibility of Fast Large-Scale Numerical Simulation Implemented with Graphics Processing Units

Author

Yu, Chi-Jer ; Liu, Chii-Tung

Author_Institution

Dept. of Appl. Math., Nat. Chiao Tung Univ., Hsinchu, Taiwan

fYear

2010

fDate

6-9 Sept. 2010

Firstpage

550

Lastpage

556

Abstract

The main purpose of this paper is to demonstrate how we make use of the powerful graphics processor, NVIDIA GTX280, in numerical simulation with the support of double precision floating number. Apply the finite volume method in simulating the Euler equation, two well-known examples for travelling shock waves were examined in high resolution. We had achieved at best 878 times faster than a Core 2 Duo E8500 system as one core used. Beside that, the potential of multi-GPU parallelism in large-scale model is also been exhibited.

Keywords

computer graphic equipment; coprocessors; numerical analysis; Core 2 Duo E8500 system; Euler equation; NVIDIA GTX280; double precision floating number; fast large scale numerical simulation implemention; graphics processing units; powerful graphics processor; travelling shock waves; Central Processing Unit; Equations; Graphics; Graphics processing unit; Instruction sets; Mathematical model; Numerical simulation; CUDA; Euler equation; GPU; finite volume; parallel computing; shock wave;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Parallel and Distributed Processing with Applications (ISPA), 2010 International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Taipei

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-8095-1

Electronic_ISBN

978-0-7695-4190-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISPA.2010.37

Filename

5634379