Authors: Ruda, Dustin
Turek, Stefan
Ribbrock, Dirk
Zajac, Peter
Title: An extension of a very fast direct finite element Poisson solver on lower precision accelerator hardware towards semi-structured grids
Language (ISO): en
Abstract: Graphics cards that are equipped with Tensor Core units designed for AI applica tions, for example the NVIDIA Ampere A100, promise very high peak rates concerning their computing power (156 TFLOP/s in single and 312 TFLOP/s in half precision in the case of the A100). This is only achieved when performing arithmetically intensive operations such as dense matrix multiplications in the aforementioned lower precision, which is an obstacle when trying to use this hardware for solving linear systems arising from PDEs discretized with the finite element method. In previous works, we delivered a proof of concept that the predecessor of the A100, the V100 and its Tensor Cores, can be exploited to a great extent when solving Poisson’s equation on the unit square if a hardware-oriented direct solver based on prehandling via hierarchical finite elements and a Schur complement approach is used. In this work, using numerical results on an A100 graphics card, we show that the method also achieves a very high performance if Poisson’s equation, which is discretized by linear finite elements, is solved on a more complex domain corresponding to a flow around a square configuration.
Subject Headings: accelerator hardware
lower precision
hierarchical finite elements
prehandling
NVIDIA A100
tensor core GPUs
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/2003/41031
http://dx.doi.org/10.17877/DE290R-22879
Issue Date: 2022-07
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