Porting hypre to heterogeneous computer architectures: Strategies and experiences
We report that linear systems are occurring in many applications, and solving them can take a large amount of the total simulation time. The high performance library hypre provides a variety of interfaces and linear solvers, including various multigrid methods, that have achieved good scalability on a variety of homogeneous parallel computer architectures. Heterogeneous architectures with nodes that have both CPUs and accelerators provide new challenges, since they require more fine-grained parallelism and reduced data movement between different memories on a single node as well as across nodes. We will discuss our experiences and strategies to port hypre to heterogeneous computers with accelerators, including the design of a new memory model, the use of abstractions, the BoxLoop macros in the structured and semi-structured interfaces, and the restructuring of algebraic multigrid (AMG) into modular components. We present numerical experiments comparing CPU and GPU performance for several test problems.
- Research Organization:
- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), Livermore, CA (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA)
- Grant/Contract Number:
- AC52-07NA27344
- OSTI ID:
- 1860740
- Report Number(s):
- LLNL-JRNL-826890; 1041741
- Journal Information:
- Parallel Computing, Journal Name: Parallel Computing Journal Issue: N/A Vol. 108; ISSN 0167-8191
- Publisher:
- ElsevierCopyright Statement
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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