摘要
CFD is a ubiquitous technique central to much of computational simulation such as that required by aircraft design.Solving of the Poisson equation occurs frequently in CFD and there are a number of possible approaches one may leverage.The dynamical core of the MONC atmospheric model is one example of CFD which requires the solving of the Poisson equation to determine pressure terms.Traditionally this aspect of the model has been very time consuming and so it is important to consider how we might reduce the runtime cost.In this paper we survey the different approaches implemented in MONC to perform the pressure solve.Designed to take advantage of large scale,modern,HPC machines,we are concerned with the computation and communication behaviour of the available techniques and in this text we focus on direct FFT and indirect iterative methods.In addition to describing the implementation of these techniques we illustrate on up to 32768 processor cores of a Cray XC30 both the performance and scalability of our approaches.Raw runtime is not the only measure so we also make some comments around the stability and accuracy of solution.The result of this work are a number of techniques,optimised for large scale HPC systems,and an understanding of which is most appropriate in different situations.
CFD is a ubiquitous technique central to much of computational simulation such as that required by air- craft design. Solving of the Poisson equation occurs frequently in CFD and there are a number of possible approa- ches one may leverage. The dynamical core of the MONC atmospheric model is one example of CFD which requires the solving of the Poisson equation to determine pressure terms. Traditionally this aspect of the model has been very time consuming and so it is important to consider how we might reduce the runtime cost. In this paper we survey the different approaches implemented in MONC to perform the pressure solve. Designed to take advantage of large scale, modem, HPC machines, we are concerned with the computation and communication behaviour of the availa- ble techniques and in this text we focus on direct FFT and indirect iterative methods. In addition to describing the implementation of these techniques we illustrate on up to 32768 processor cores of a Cray XC30 both the perform- ance and scalability of our approaches. Raw runtime is not the only measure so we also make some comments a- round the stability and accuracy of solution. The result of this work are a number of techniques, optimised for large scale HPC systems, and an understanding of which is most appropriate in different situations.
出处
《民用飞机设计与研究》
2017年第3期85-94,共10页
Civil Aircraft Design & Research
关键词
飞行器
设计方案
飞机
理论研究
Poisson equation
CFD
FFT solver
iterative solver
MONC
PETSc
