Success Story: Running AVBP Industrial code on Arm architectures
With the diversification of the micro-processor catalogue for High-Performance systems, porting and evaluating software performance on Arm-based architectures has become an imperative step for code developers. For core performance to multi-node scalability, real application benchmarks remain elusive. Given the myriad of Arm flavours available, a comprehensive real case benchmark would give developers and users a first look for the future usage of the European Processor Initiative (EPI) and Arm-based leadership class systems.
In collaboration with Arm Ltd., CERFACS has performed a first benchmark using the AVBP code, a state-of-the-art Navier Stokes solver on unstructured grids for reactive compressible flows written in Fortran and based on MPI for parallelism.
Success Story: Transparent Integration of Emerging HPC Technologies into the Computational Fluid Dynamics Software CODA
Success Story: Transparent Integration of Emerging HPC Technologies into the Computational Fluid Dynamics Software CODA Success story # Highlights: Keywords: Computational Fluid Dynamics Aerospace High Performance Computing GPU linear equation systems aircraft aerodynamics Industry sector: Aerospace Key codes used: CODA, Spliss Title: Simulation of external aircraft aerodynamics. Credit and copyright: DLR (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0) Organisations […]
On the technical debt of high-performance scientific software
High-performance scientific software must overcome two specific challenges: scientific validation, and performance on bleeding-edge and short-lived hardware. Success in each requires time, expertise, and cumulative experience over many failed attempts. Thus, engineering software developers are mostly experts in physical modelling or in high-performance computing (HPC) and rarely experts in the management of technical debt.
Success Stories: Accelerating Alya engineering simulations by using FPGAs
Accelerating Alya engineering simulations by using FPGAs Success story # Highlights: Keywords: FPGA Exascale engineering simulations incompressible flow GPUs Industry sector: Automotive, Aerospace, Manufacturing, Energy Key codes used: Alya Performance comparison between CPU, GPU, three kernels on the FPGA (with cartesian derivatives calculation on CPU) and two kernels on the FPGA (all calculations on the […]
Success Story: A novel framework for online estimation of the uncertainties in turbulent flow statistics
Success Story: A novel framework for online estimation of the uncertainties in turbulent flow statistics Success story # Highlights: Keywords: Turbulence simulation Time-averaging uncertainty In-situ algorithms Industry sector: Aerospace, Automotive, Energy Key codes used: Nek5000, UQit, In-Situ Toolbox Turbulent flow around the NACA4412 Wing; Instantaneous flow field (iso-surfaces of the Q-criterion) Organisations & Codes Involved: […]
Key points and take-outs from the FORTRAN webinar organised by EXCELLERAT
The EXCELLERAT Centre of Excellence held a Webinar with Wadud Miah on the topic “Fortran for High Performance Computing” on the 4th of May 2021. Following this event, CERFACS created a COOP blog article with the objective to further share the answers to the questions discussed during the webinar with the HPC ecosystem.
EXCELLERAT’s Fourth All-Hands Meeting
From 30 November to 1 December 2021, our project meeting was once again hosted as a digital event due to the continuing pandemic situation. About 30 partner representatives per day presented the EXCELLERAT project tasks’ good progress, some minor 2021 challenges, and the requirements for the project’s extension and great final results.
Success Story: Enabling sustainable GPU acceleration on a Fortran legacy code.
Success Story: Enabling sustainable GPU acceleration on a Fortran legacy code Success story # Highlights: Keywords: CFD combustion simulation parallel performance GPU computing OpenACC Industry sector: Aerospace, Automotive Key codes used: AVBP Traces without DLB (original) and with DLB of the Bunsen flame use case Organisations & Codes Involved: CERFACS is a theoretical and applied […]
EXCELLERAT Exploitation Strategy Seminar with Horizon Results Booster for Vistle, Alya and Uqit
In collaboration with experts from Horizon Results Booster (HRB), EXCELLERAT has completed its first internal Exploitation Strategy Seminar for three selected Key Exploitable Results (KERs): Vistle, Alya and UQit. After an introduction by Dr. Péter Mogyorósi, the HRB expert, partners presented and discussed each KER and its exploitation strategy with HRB experts.
Co-design
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