BookLeaf: An Unstructured Hydrodynamics Mini-Application

David Truby, Steven Wright, Robert Kevis, Satheesh Maheswaran, Andrew Herdman, Stephen Jarvis

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Abstract

With the age of Exascale computing causing a diversification away from traditional CPU-based homogeneous clusters, it is becoming increasingly difficult to ensure that computationally complex codes are able to run on these emerging architectures. This is especially important for large physics simulations that are themselves becoming increasingly complex and computationally expensive. One proposed solution to the problem of ensuring these applications can run on the desired architectures is to develop representative mini-applications that are simpler and so can be ported to new frameworks more easily, but which are also representative of the algorithmic and performance characteristics of the original applications. In this paper we present BookLeaf, an unstructured Arbitrary Lagrangian-Eulerian mini-application to add to the suite of representative applications developed and maintained by the UK Mini-App Consortium (UK-MAC). First, we outline the reference implementation of our application in Fortran. We then discuss a number of alternative implementations using a variety of parallel programming models and discuss the issues that arise when porting such an application to new architectures. To demonstrate our implementation, we present a study of the performance of BookLeaf on number of platforms using alternative designs, and we document a scaling study showing the behaviour of the application at scale.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings - 2018 IEEE International Conference on Cluster Computing, CLUSTER 2018
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Pages615-622
Number of pages8
ISBN (Electronic)9781538683194
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 29 Oct 2018
Event2018 IEEE International Conference on Cluster Computing, CLUSTER 2018 - Belfast, United Kingdom
Duration: 10 Sept 201813 Sept 2018

Publication series

NameProceedings - IEEE International Conference on Cluster Computing, ICCC
Volume2018-September
ISSN (Print)1552-5244

Conference

Conference2018 IEEE International Conference on Cluster Computing, CLUSTER 2018
Country/TerritoryUnited Kingdom
CityBelfast
Period10/09/1813/09/18

Bibliographical note

Funding Information:
This work was supported by the UK Atomic Weapons Establishment under grant CDK0724 (AWE Technical Outreach Programme). Professor Stephen Jarvis is an AWE William Penney Fellow.

Publisher Copyright:
© 2018 IEEE.

Keywords

  • HPC mini apps openmp fortran

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Software
  • Hardware and Architecture
  • Signal Processing

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