کد مقاله | کد نشریه | سال انتشار | مقاله انگلیسی | نسخه تمام متن |
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429356 | 687477 | 2011 | 8 صفحه PDF | دانلود رایگان |
WaLBerla (Widely applicable Lattice-Boltzmann from Erlangen) is a massively parallel software framework supporting a wide range of physical phenomena. This article describes the software designs realizing the major goal of the framework, a good balance between expandability and scalable, highly optimized, hardware-dependent, special purpose kernels. To demonstrate our designs, we discuss the coupling of our Lattice-Boltzmann fluid flow solver and a method for fluid structure interaction. Additionally, we show a software design for heterogeneous computations on GPU and CPU utilizing optimized kernels. Finally, we estimate the software quality of the framework on the basis of software quality factors.
► We show software designs concepts for massively parallel numerical simulations.
► The Sweep concept breaks down numerical algorithms into work steps.
► A Patch concept enables efficient parallelization.
► Functionality management allows for heterogeneous simulations.
► Software quality factors maintainability, expandability and efficiency are improved.
Journal: Journal of Computational Science - Volume 2, Issue 2, May 2011, Pages 105–112