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| Paper: |
Efficient Parallelization for AMR MHD Multiphysics Calculations: Implementation in AstroBEAR |
| Volume: |
459, 6th International Conference of Numerical Modeling of Space Plasma Flows (ASTRONUM 2011) |
| Page: |
291 |
| Authors: |
Carroll-Nellenback, J.; Shroyer, B.; Frank, A.; Ding, C. |
| Abstract: |
Current AMR simulations require algorithms that are highly parallelized and manage memory efficiently. As compute engines grow larger,
AMR simulations will require algorithms that achieve new levels of efficient parallelization and memory management. We have attempted to
employ new techniques to achieve both of these goals. Patch or grid based AMR often employs ghost cells to decouple the hyperbolic advances
of each grid on a given refinement level. This decoupling allows each grid to be advanced independently. In AstroBEAR we utilize this
independence by threading the grid advances on each level with preference going to the finer level grids. This allows for global load
balancing instead of level by level load balancing and allows for greater parallelization across both physical space and AMR level.
Threading of level advances can also improve performance by interleaving communication with computation, especially in deep simulations
with many levels of refinement. To improve memory management we have employed a distributed tree algorithm that requires processors
to only store and communicate local sections of the AMR tree structure with neighboring processors. |
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