Title :
Using Graphics Processors for High-Performance Computation and Visualization of Plasma Turbulence
Author :
Stantchev, George ; Juba, Derek ; Dorland, William ; Varshney, Amitabh
Author_Institution :
Univ. of Maryland, College Park, MD
Abstract :
Direct numerical simulation (DNS) of turbulence is computationally intensive and typically relies on some form of parallel processing. The authors present techniques to map DNS computations to modern graphics processing units (GPUs), which are characterized by very high memory bandwidth and hundreds of SPMD (single-program-multiple-data) processors.
Keywords :
data visualisation; multiprocessing systems; nuclear engineering computing; numerical analysis; parallel processing; plasma turbulence; direct numerical simulation; graphics processing units; high-performance computation; parallel processing; plasma turbulence visualization; single-program-multiple-data processors; Computational modeling; Computer architecture; Concurrent computing; Graphics; Numerical simulation; Parallel processing; Plasma devices; Plasma materials processing; Plasma simulation; Visualization; GPU programming; direct numerical simulation; graphics processing unit; plasma turbulence; scientific computing;
Journal_Title :
Computing in Science & Engineering
DOI :
10.1109/MCSE.2009.42
