Vectorizing unstructured mesh computations for many-core architectures

Performance analysis of a 3D unstructured mesh hydrodynamics code on multi- and many-core architectures

Several next generation high performance computing platforms are or will be based on the so-called many-core architectures, which represent a significant departure from commodity multi-core architectures. A key issue in transitioning large-scale simulation codes from multi-core to many-core systems is closing the serial performance gap, that is, overcoming the large difference in single-core pe...

Unstructured Mesh Generation For Viscous Flow Computations

This paper presents a robust and automated approach to generate unstructured hybrid grids comprised of tetrahedra, prisms, and pyramids for high Reynolds number flow computations. The hybrid mesh generation starts with isotropic tetrahedral grids to enhance the robustness. The tetrahedra near no-slip walls are shifted inward and the resulting gap between the tetrahedra and the walls is filled u...

Automatically Optimizing Stencil Computations on Many-Core NUMA Architectures

This paper presents a system for automatically supporting the optimization of stencil kernels on emerging Non-Uniform Memory Access(NUMA) many-core architectures, through a combined compiler + runtime approach. In particular, we use a pragma-driven compiler to recognize the special structures and optimization needs of stencil computations and thereby to automatically generate low-level code tha...

Many Core Hardware Architectures

Many-Task Computing on Many-Core Architectures

Many-Task Computing (MTC) is a common scenario for multiple parallel systems, such as cluster, grids, cloud and supercomputers, but it is not so popular in shared memory parallel processors. In this sense and given the spectacular growth in performance and in number of cores integrated in many-core architectures, the study of MTC on such architectures is becoming more and more relevant. In this...