Exploiting Hierarchical Parallelism in an Astrophysical Equation of State Using OpenACC and OpenMP
Modeling thermonuclear supernovae is a premier application for leadership-class supercomputers and requires multi-physics simulation codes to capture hydrodynamics, nuclear burning, gravitational forces, etc. As a nuclear detonation burns through the stellar material, it also increases the temperature. An equation of state (EOS) is then required to determine, for example, the new pressure associated with this temperature increase. In fact, an EOS is needed after thermodynamic conditions are changed by any physics routines. This means it is called many times throughout a simulation, requiring the need for a fast EOS implementation. Fortunately, these calculations can be performed independently during each time step, so the work can be offloaded to GPUs. Using results from the IBM/NVIDIA early test system (Summitdev, a precursor to the upcoming Summit supercomputer) at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, we describe a hybrid OpenMP implementation with offloaded work to GPUs. We compare performance results between the two implementations, with a discussion of some of the currently available features of OpenACC and OpenMP 4.5.
- Research Organization:
- Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), Advanced Scientific Computing Research (ASCR)
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC05-00OR22725
- OSTI ID:
- 1456784
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: Parallel Computing Conference (ParCo2017) - Bologna, , Italy - 9/12/2017 8:00:00 AM-9/15/2017 8:00:00 AM
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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