Multiscale Hemodynamics Using GPU Clusters
Department of Computer Science, University of Rome "Sapienza", Italy
Communications in Computational Physics, Volume 11, Number 1, pp. 48-64, 2012
@article{bisson2012multiscale,
title={Multiscale Hemodynamics Using GPU Clusters},
author={Bisson, M. and Bernaschi, M. and Melchionna, S. and Succi, S. and Kaxiras, E.},
year={2012}
}
The parallel implementation of MUPHY, a concurrent multiscale code for large-scale hemodynamic simulations in anatomically realistic geometries, for multiGPU platforms is presented. Performance tests show excellent results, with a nearly linear parallel speed-up on up to 32GPUs and a more than tenfold GPU/CPU acceleration, all across the range of GPUs. The basic MUPHY scheme combines a hydrokinetic (Lattice Boltzmann) representation of the blood plasma, with a Particle Dynamics treatment of suspended biological bodies, such as red blood cells. To the best of our knowledge, this represents the first effort in the direction of laying down general design principles for multiscale/physics parallel Particle Dynamics applications in non-ideal geometries. This configures the present multi-GPU version of MUPHY as one of the first examples of a high-performance parallel code for multiscale/physics biofluidic applications in realistically complex geometries.
February 17, 2012 by hgpu
