A parallel implementation of a smoothed particle hydrodynamics method on graphics hardware using the compute unified device architecture

Un Hong Wong, Hon Cheng Wong, Zesheng Tang

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Abstract

The smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH), which is a class of meshfree particle methods (MPMs), has a wide range of applications from micro-scale to macro-scale as well as from discrete systems to continuum systems. Graphics hardware, originally designed for computer graphics, now provide unprecedented computational power for scientific computation. Particle system needs a huge amount of computations in physical simulation. In this paper, an efficient parallel implementation of a SPH method [1] on graphics hardware using the Compute Unified Device Architecture [2] is developed for fluid simulation [3]. Comparing to the corresponding CPU implementation, our experimental results show that the new approach allows significant speedups of fluid simulation through handling huge amount of computations in parallel on graphics hardware.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationISCM II and EPMESC XII - Proc. of the 2nd Int. Symposium on Computational Mechanics and the 12th Int. Conf. on the Enhancement and Promotion of Computational Methods in Engineering and Science
Pages395-400
Number of pages6
EditionPART 1
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2010
Externally publishedYes
Event2nd International Symposium on Computational Mechanics, ISCM II, and the 12th International Conference on the Enhancement and Promotion of Computational Methods in Engineering and Science, EPMESC XII - Hong Kong, Macau, China
Duration: 30 Nov 20093 Dec 2009

Publication series

NameAIP Conference Proceedings
NumberPART 1
Volume1233
ISSN (Print)0094-243X
ISSN (Electronic)1551-7616

Conference

Conference2nd International Symposium on Computational Mechanics, ISCM II, and the 12th International Conference on the Enhancement and Promotion of Computational Methods in Engineering and Science, EPMESC XII
Country/TerritoryChina
CityHong Kong, Macau
Period30/11/093/12/09

Keywords

  • Graphics Hardware
  • Parallel Computing
  • Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics

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