Parallel Lattice Boltzmann Flow Simulation on Emerging Multi-core Platforms

Abstract. A parallel Lattice Boltzmann Method (pLBM), which is based on hierarchical spatial decomposition, is designed to perform large-scale flow simulations. The algorithm uses critical section-free, dual representation in order to expose maximal concurrency and data locality. Performances of emerging multi-core platforms--PlayStation3 (Cell Broadband Engine) and Compute Unified Device Architecture (CUDA)--are tested using the pLBM, which is implemented with multi-thread and message-passing programming. The results

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2008
• Where: EUROPAR
• Authors: Liu Peng, Ken-ichi Nomura, Takehiro Oyakawa, Rajiv K. Kalia, Aiichiro Nakano, Priya Vashishta
• Keywords: Compute Unified Device Architecture, Distributed And Parallel Computing, EUROPAR 2008, Hierarchical Spatial Decomposition, Parallel Lattice Boltzmann