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A new approach to the lattice Boltzmann method for graphics processing units

Christian Obrecht, Frederic Kuznik, Bernard Tourancheau, Jean-Jacques Roux
Centre de Thermique de Lyon, UMR5008, CNRS, INSA-Lyon, Universite de Lyon, France
Computers & Mathematics with Applications (20 February 2010)

@article{obrecht2010new,

   title={A new approach to the lattice Boltzmann method for graphics processing units},

   author={Obrecht, C. and Kuznik, F. and Tourancheau, B. and Roux, J.J.},

   journal={Computers & Mathematics with Applications},

   issn={0898-1221},

   year={2010},

   publisher={Elsevier}

}

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Emerging many-core processors, like CUDA capable nVidia GPUs, are promising platforms for regular parallel algorithms such as the Lattice Boltzmann Method (LBM). Since the global memory for graphic devices shows high latency and LBM is data intensive, the memory access pattern is an important issue for achieving good performances. Whenever possible, global memory loads and stores should be coalescent and aligned, but the propagation phase in LBM can lead to frequent misaligned memory accesses. Most previous CUDA implementations of 3D LBM addressed this problem by using low latency on chip shared memory. Instead of this, our CUDA implementation of LBM follows carefully chosen data transfer schemes in global memory. For the 3D lid-driven cavity test case, we obtained up to 86% of the global memory maximal throughput on nVidia’s GT200. We show that as a consequence highly efficient implementations of LBM on GPUs are possible, even for complex models.
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