Asynchronous Hybrid Parallel SpMV in an Industrial Application

Pore-scale simulation is both computationally challenging and a key element of hydrocarbon exploration and production ([1], [2], [3]). The subject of this study is the efficient solution of the linear systems arising from the discretization of the Cahn-Hilliard equation ([4], [5]), which governs the...

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Published in2016 International Conference on Computational Science and Computational Intelligence (CSCI) pp. 1196 - 1201
Main Authors Thiele, Christopher, Araya-Polo, Mauricio, Stoyanov, Dimitar, Frank, Florian, Alpak, Faruk O.
Format Conference Proceeding
LanguageEnglish
Published IEEE 01.12.2016
Subjects
Computational modeling
Fluid dynamics
Hydrocarbons
Instruction sets
Libraries
Linear algebra
Linear systems
Mathematical model
Numerical simulation
Scalability
Sparse matrices
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DOI10.1109/CSCI.2016.0226

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Summary:Pore-scale simulation is both computationally challenging and a key element of hydrocarbon exploration and production ([1], [2], [3]). The subject of this study is the efficient solution of the linear systems arising from the discretization of the Cahn-Hilliard equation ([4], [5]), which governs the separation of a two-component fluid mixture. We investigate synchronous and asynchronous parallel iterative solvers for our simulation. We focus our efforts on two main aspects: first, software infrastructure that supports this kind of computations, mainly Trilinos and GaspiLS. Second, scalability and performance analysis. The asynchronous solver performs well and scales better than the synchronous ones for most test problems, especially for large systems distributed over many computational nodes (up to 23% faster and 10% higher parallel efficiency in these cases).
DOI:10.1109/CSCI.2016.0226