Towards extreme-scale simulations with next-generation trilinos: A low mach fluid application case study

Paul Lin, Matthew Bettencourt, Stefan Domino, Travis Fisher, Mark Hoemmen, Jonathan Hu, Eric Phipps, Andrey Prokopenko, Sivasankaran Rajamanickam, Christopher Siefert, Eric Cyr, Stephen Kennon

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Abstract

Trilinos is an object-oriented software framework for the solution of large-scale, complex multi-physics engineering and scientific problems. While the original version of Trilinos was designed for highly scalable solutions for large problems, the need for increasingly higher fidelity simulations has pushed the problem sizes beyond what could have been envisioned two decades ago. When problem sizes exceed a billion elements even highly scalable applications and solver stacks require a complete revision. The next-generation Trilinos employs C++ templates in order to solve arbitrarily large problems and enable extreme-scale simulations. We present a case study that involves integration of Trilinos with an engineering application (Sierra low Mach module/Nalu), involving the simulation of low Mach fluid flow for problems of size up to nine billion elements. Through the use of improved algorithms and better software engineering practices, we demonstrate good weak scaling for the matrix assembly and solve for the engineering application for up to a nine billion element fluid flow large eddy simulation (LES) problem on unstructured meshes with a 27 billion row matrix on 131,072 cores of a Cray XE6 platform.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings - IEEE 28th International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium Workshops, IPDPSW 2014
PublisherIEEE Computer Society
Pages1485-1494
Number of pages10
ISBN (Electronic)9780769552088
DOIs
StatePublished - Nov 27 2014
Externally publishedYes
Event28th IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium Workshops, IPDPSW 2014 - Phoenix, United States
Duration: May 19 2014May 23 2014

Publication series

NameProceedings - IEEE 28th International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium Workshops, IPDPSW 2014

Conference

Conference28th IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium Workshops, IPDPSW 2014
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityPhoenix
Period05/19/1405/23/14

Keywords

  • Extreme-scale simulations
  • Solver library
  • Trilinos
  • Vertical integration

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