Browsing by Author "Álvarez Farré, Xavier"
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A hierarchical parallel implementation for heterogeneous computing. Application to algebra-based CFD simulations on hybrid supercomputers
Álvarez Farré, Xavier; Gorobets, Andrei; Trias Miquel, Francesc Xavier (Elsevier, 2021-01)
Article
Open AccessThe quest for new portable implementations of simulation algorithms is motivated by the increasing variety of computing architectures. Moreover, the hybridization of high-performance computing systems imposes additional ... -
A hierarchical parallel implementation model for algebra-based CFD simulations on hybrid supercomputers
Álvarez Farré, Xavier (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2022-09-05)
Doctoral thesis
Open Access(English) Continuous enhancement in hardware technologies enables scientific computing to advance incessantly and reach further aims. Since the start of the global race for exascale high-performance computing (HPC), ... -
A highly portable heterogeneous implementation of a Poisson solver for flows with one periodic direction
Alsalti Baldellou, Àdel; Trias Miquel, Francesc Xavier; Álvarez Farré, Xavier; Oliva Llena, Asensio (2021)
Conference report
Restricted access - publisher's policyThe portability of codes has become a major advantage given the continuous development of new architectures for numerical applications, as well as the progressive incorporation of accelerators in modern supercomputers. ... -
A pure virtual approach for managing platform portability on hybrid supercomputers
Álvarez Farré, Xavier; Gorobets, Andrei; Alsalti Baldellou, Àdel; Trias Miquel, Francesc Xavier (2019)
Conference report
Restricted access - publisher's policyCommonly, the development of scientific computing software follows a stencilbased approach: the numerical methods and algorithms are introduced into computing systems through stencil data structures and sweeps (i.e. ... -
Algebraic implementation of a flux limiter for heterogeneous computing
Valle Marchante, Nicolás; Álvarez Farré, Xavier; Trias Miquel, Francesc Xavier; Castro González, Jesús; Oliva Llena, Asensio (2018)
Conference report
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Development of a low-level, algebra-based library to provide platform portability on hybrid supercomputers
Álvarez Farré, Xavier; Alsalti Baldellou, Àdel; Colomer Rey, Guillem; Gorobets, Andrei; Trias Miquel, Francesc Xavier; Oliva Llena, Asensio (Scipedia, 2022)
Conference report
Open AccessContinuous enhancement in hardware technologies enables scientific computing to advance incessantly and reach further aims. Since the start of the global race for exascale high-performance computing, massively-parallel ... -
DNS and LES on unstructured grids: playing with matrices to preserve symmetries using a minimal set of algebraic kernels
Trias Miquel, Francesc Xavier; Álvarez Farré, Xavier; Alsalti Baldellou, Àdel; Gorobets, Andrei; Oliva Llena, Asensio (Scipedia, 2022)
Conference report
Open AccessThe essence of turbulence are the smallest scales of motion. They result from asubtle balance between two differential operators differing in symmetry: The convective operator is skew-symmetric, whereas the diffusive is ... -
DNS/LES using a minimal set of algebraic Kernels: challenges and opportunities
Trias Miquel, Francesc Xavier; Álvarez Farré, Xavier; Alsalti Baldellou, Àdel; Gorobets, Andrei; Oliva Llena, Asensio (Parallel Computational Fluid Dynamics (ParCFD), 2022)
Conference report
Restricted access - publisher's policyIn the last decades, CFD has become a standard design tool in many fields such as automotive, aeronautical and wind power industries. The driven force behind this is the development of numerical techniques in conjunction ... -
Efficient strategies for solving the variable Poisson equation with large contrasts in the coefficients
Alsalti Baldellou, Àdel; Álvarez Farré, Xavier; Gorobets, Andrei; Trias Miquel, Francesc Xavier; Oliva Llena, Asensio (2022)
Conference report
Open AccessDiscrete versions of Poisson’s equation with large contrasts in the coefficients result in very ill-conditioned systems. Thus, its iterative solution represents a major challenge, for instance, in porous media and multiphase ... -
Exploiting spatial symmetries for solving Poisson's equation
Alsalti Baldellou, Àdel; Álvarez Farré, Xavier; Trias Miquel, Francesc Xavier; Oliva Llena, Asensio (Elsevier, 2023-08-01)
Article
Open AccessThis paper presents a strategy to accelerate virtually any Poisson solver by taking advantage of s spatial reflection symmetries. More precisely, we have proved the existence of an inexpensive block diagonalisation that ... -
HPC² - A fully-portable, algebra-based framework for heterogeneous computing. Application to CFD
Álvarez Farré, Xavier; Gorobets, Andrei; Trias Miquel, Francesc Xavier; Borrell Pol, Ricard; Oyarzun Altamirano, Guillermo (Elsevier, 2018-09)
Article
Open AccessThe variety of computing architectures competing in the exascale race makes the portability of codes of major importance. In this work, the HPC2 code is presented as a fully-portable, algebra-based framework suitable for ... -
Implementation of a flux-limiter into a fully-portable, algebra-based framework for heterogeneous computing
Álvarez Farré, Xavier; Valle Marchante, Nicolás; Gorobets, Andrei; Trias Miquel, Francesc Xavier (2018)
Conference report
Restricted access - publisher's policyDuring the last years, there has been a signi¿cant increment in the variety of hardware to overcome the power constraint in the context of the exascale challenge. This progress is leading to an increasing hybridisation of ... -
NUMA-Aware strategies for the efficient execution of CFD simulations on CPU supercomputers
Álvarez Farré, Xavier; Gorobets, Andrei; Trias Miquel, Francesc Xavier; Oliva Llena, Asensio (2021)
Conference report
Restricted access - publisher's policyThe growing variety of computing architectures and the hybridization of high-performance computing systems encourage the research for portable implementations of numerical methods in simulation codes. However, the pursuit ... -
NUMA-Aware Strategies for the Heterogeneous Execution of SPMV on Modern Supercomputers
Álvarez Farré, Xavier; Gorobets, Andrei; Trias Miquel, Francesc Xavier; Oliva Llena, Asensio (2021)
Conference report
Open AccessThe sparse matrix-vector product is a widespread operation amongst the scientific computing community. It represents the dominant computational cost in many large-scale simulations relying on iterative methods, and its ... -
On the benefits and applications of sparse matrix-matrix product on various parallel architectures
Álvarez Farré, Xavier; Alsalti Baldellou, Àdel; Gorobets, Andrei; Oliva Llena, Asensio; Trias Miquel, Francesc Xavier (Parallel Computational Fluid Dynamics (ParCFD), 2022)
Conference report
Restricted access - publisher's policySparse matrix-vector multiplications are essential in the numerical resolution of partial differential equations. However, the sparse matrix-vector product is a strongly memory-bound kernel that suffers from data starving. ... -
On the implementation of flux limiters in algebraic frameworks
Valle Marchante, Nicolás; Álvarez Farré, Xavier; Gorobets, Andrei; Castro González, Jesús; Oliva Llena, Asensio; Trias Miquel, Francesc Xavier (2022-02-01)
Article
Open AccessThe use of flux limiters is widespread within the scientific computing community to capture shock dis- continuities and are of paramount importance for the temporal integration of high-speed aerodynamics, multiphase flows ... -
Strategies for the heterogeneous execution of large-scale simulations on hybrid supercomputers
Álvarez Farré, Xavier; Gorobets, Andrei; Trias Miquel, Francesc Xavier (International Centre for Numerical Methods in Engineering (CIMNE), 2018)
Conference lecture
Restricted access - publisher's policyMassively-parallel devices of various architectures are being adopted by the newest supercomputers to overcome the actual power constraint in the context of the exascale challenge. This progress leads to an increasing ... -
Strategies to increase the arithmetic intensity of the linear solvers
Alsalti Baldellou, Àdel; Álvarez Farré, Xavier; Gorobets, Andrei; Oliva Llena, Asensio; Trias Miquel, Francesc Xavier (Parallel Computational Fluid Dynamics (ParCFD), 2022)
Conference report
Restricted access - publisher's policyThe present work presents a strategy to increase the arithmetic intensity of the solvers. Namely, we profit spatial reflection symmetries to block diagonalise Poisson's equation and split the resulting blocks into a common ...