Air pollution modelling using a graphics processing unit with CUDA

DOI10.1016/J.CPC.2009.09.008MaRDI QIDQ615004zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors F. jun. Molnár, T. Szakály, R. Mészáros, I. Lagzi

Publication date 5 January 2011

Published in Computer Physics Communications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0912.3223

zbMATH Keywords

air pollutionparallel computingCUDAenvironmental applicationvideo card

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Parallel numerical computation (65Y05) Computing methodologies and applications (68U99) Probabilistic models, generic numerical methods in probability and statistics (65C20) Ecology (92D40)

Abstract: The Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) is a powerful tool for parallel computing. In the past years the performance and capabilities of GPUs have increased, and the Compute Unified Device Architecture (CUDA) - a parallel computing architecture - has been developed by NVIDIA to utilize this performance in general purpose computations. Here we show for the first time a possible application of GPU for environmental studies serving as a basement for decision making strategies. A stochastic Lagrangian particle model has been developed on CUDA to estimate the transport and the transformation of the radionuclides from a single point source during an accidental release. Our results show that parallel implementation achieves typical acceleration values in the order of 80-120 times compared to CPU using a single-threaded implementation on a 2.33 GHz desktop computer. Only very small differences have been found between the results obtained from GPU and CPU simulations, which are comparable with the effect of stochastic transport phenomena in atmosphere. The relatively high speedup with no additional costs to maintain this parallel architecture could result in a wide usage of GPU for diversified environmental applications in the near future.

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• Development of a GPU-based high-performance radiative transfer model for the infrared atmospheric sounding interferometer (IASI)
• Numerical characterization of nonlinear dynamical systems using parallel computing: the role of GPUs approach
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• Multi-GPU accelerated multi-spin Monte Carlo simulations of the 2D Ising model

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Uses Software

• CUDA
• MersenneTwister

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