High-performance SIMD implementation of the lattice-Boltzmann method on the Xeon Phi processor

Fredrik Robertsén, Keijo Mattila, Jan Westerholm

Research output: Contribution to journalArticleScientificpeer-review

6 Citations (Scopus)
85 Downloads (Pure)

Abstract

We present a high‐performance implementation of the lattice‐Boltzmann method (LBM) on the Knights Landing generation of Xeon Phi. The Knights Landing architecture includes 16GB of high‐speed memory (MCDRAM) with a reported bandwidth of over 400 GB/s, and a subset of the AVX‐512 single instruction multiple data (SIMD) instruction set. We explain five critical implementation aspects for high performance on this architecture: (1) the choice of appropriate LBM algorithm, (2) suitable data layout, (3) vectorization of the computation, (4) data prefetching, and (5) running our LBM simulations exclusively from the MCDRAM. The effects of these implementation aspects on the computational performance are demonstrated with the lattice‐Boltzmann scheme involving the D3Q19 discrete velocity set and the TRT collision operator. In our benchmark simulations of fluid flow through porous media, using double‐precision floating‐point arithmetic, the observed performance exceeds 960 million fluid lattice site updates per second.

Original languageUndefined/Unknown
Pages (from-to)
JournalConcurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience
Volume31
Issue number13
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2019
MoE publication typeA1 Journal article-refereed

Keywords

  • Xeon Phi

Cite this