Abstract
We present an open source, object-oriented software for high throughput Direct Numerical Simulations of compressible, two-phase flows. The Navier-Stokes equations are discretized on uniform grids using high order finite volume methods. The software exploits recent CPU micro-architectures by explicit vectorization and adopts NUMA-aware techniques as well as data and computation reordering. We report a compressible flow solver with unprecedented fractions of peak performance: 45% of the peak for a single node (nominal performance of 840 GFLOP/s) and 30% for a cluster of 47’000 cores (nominal performance of 0.8 PFLOP/s). We suggest that the present work may serve as a performance upper bound, regarding achievable GFLOP/s, for two-phase flow solvers using adaptive mesh refinement. The software enables 3D simulations of shock-bubble interaction including, for the first time, effects of diffusion and surface tension, by efficiently employing two hundred billion computational elements.
Babak Hejazialhosseini, Diego Rossinelli, Christian Conti, and Petros Koumoutsakos. 2012. High throughput software for direct numerical simulations of compressible two-phase flows. In Proceedings of the International Conference on High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis (SC ’12). IEEE Computer Society Press, Los Alamitos, CA, USA, Article 16 (link)