Acceleration of three-dimensional Tokamak magnetohydrodynamical code with graphics processing unit and OpenACC heterogeneous parallel programming

Abstract

ABSTRACTIn this paper, the OpenACC heterogeneous parallel programming model is successfully applied to modification and acceleration of the three-dimensional Tokamak magnetohydrodynamical code (CLT). Through combination of OpenACC and MPI technologies, CLT is further parallelised by using multiple-GPUs. Significant speedup ratios are achieved on NVIDIA TITAN Xp and TITAN V GPUs, respectively, with very few modifications of CLT. Furthermore, the validity of the double precision calculations on the above-mentioned two graphics cards has also been strictly verified with m/n = 2/1 resistive tearing mode instability in Tokamak.