NDLI: Dynamic Load Balancing of the Adaptive Fast Multipole Method in Heterogeneous Systems

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	Overman, R.E. Prins, J.F. Miller, L.A. Minion, M.L.
Copyright Year	2013
Description	Author affiliation: Dept. of Comput. Sci., UNC, Chapel Hill, NC, USA (Overman, R.E.; Prins, J.F.; Miller, L.A.) \|\| Lawrence Berkeley Nat. Lab., Berkeley, CA, USA (Minion, M.L.)
Abstract	Simulations of colliding galaxies or fluid dynamics at immersed flexible boundaries are most accurately and efficiently accomplished using the adaptive fast multipole method (AFMM) to solve an underlying n-body problem whose localized density varies with the time-dependent evolution of the system under study. Parallelization of the AFMM presents a challenging load balancing problem that must be addressed dynamically as the system evolves. We consider parallelization of the AFMM for time dependent problems using a heterogeneous shared memory compute node consisting of multi-core processors and GPU accelerators. OpenMP task parallelism is used within the CPU cores to parallelize the construction and maintenance of the adaptive spatial decomposition tree and its traversal to compute far-field interactions at each leaf node in the tree. Concurrently, GPUs evaluate all near-field interactions using all-pairs computations. In addition to accurately resolving many physical phenomena out of reach using the uniform FMM, the more complex AFMM permits the number of bodies in leaf cells to be globally and locally varied in order to minimize the CPU and GPU time. We present a cost model and incremental adjustment strategy to load balance the AFMM on a heterogeneous system. We demonstrate using these techniques that a simulation can maintain load balance over hundreds of time steps on a heterogeneous system with 10 CPU cores and 4 GPUs with less than 2% overhead, while achieving a 98X speedup over a serial computation using a single CPU core.
Starting Page	1126
Ending Page	1135
File Size	457119
Page Count	10
File Format	PDF
e-ISBN	9780769549798
DOI	10.1109/IPDPSW.2013.218
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2013-05-20
Publisher Place	USA
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Adaptation models OpenMP task parallelism Computational modeling Graphics processing units Dynamic load balancing CUDA Hybrid computing Adaptive fast multipole method Accelerators Octrees Parallel processing Load management Load modeling
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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