Dynamic resource allocation for efficient parallel CFD simulations

DOI10.1016/J.COMPFLUID.2022.105577MaRDI QIDQ6385996arXivFDO

Authors Guillaume Houzeaux, Rosa M. Badia, Ricard Borrell, D. Dosimont, Jorge Ejarque, Marta Garcia-Gasulla, Vicente López

Publication date 17 December 2021

Published in arXiv

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/J.COMPFLUID.2022.105577

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Parallel numerical computation (65Y05) Basic methods in fluid mechanics (76M99) Mathematical modeling or simulation for problems pertaining to fluid mechanics (76-10)

arXiv classification

cs.NA math.NA cs.DC cs.CE

Abstract: CFD users of supercomputers usually resort to rule-of-thumb methods to select the number of subdomains (partitions) when relying on MPI-based parallelization. One common approach is to set a minimum number of elements or cells per subdomain, under which the parallel efficiency of the code is "known" to fall below a subjective level, say 80%. The situation is even worse when the user is not aware of the "good" practices for the given code and a huge amount of resources can thus be wasted. This work presents an elastic computing methodology to adapt at runtime the resources allocated to a simulation automatically. The criterion to control the required resources is based on a runtime measure of the communication efficiency of the execution. According to some analytical estimates, the resources are then expanded or reduced to fulfil this criterion and eventually execute an efficient simulation.

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