GPU Accelerated Radiation-Magneto-Hydrodynamics

• Antragsteller: Professor Dr. Robi Stefan Banerjee
• Fachliche Zuordnung: Astrophysik und Astronomie
• Förderung: Förderung von 2013 bis 2019
• Projektkennung: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Projektnummer 228148919

Research in astrophysics is nowadays heavily based on large scale numerical simulations. The recent and ongoing hardware development shows clearly that the next generation supercomputer will be dominated by many-core nodes. Among those, the most promising enduring achievement will be build on graphics processing units (GPUs), which combine these days more than 500 compute cores on a single GPU. Unfortunately, the most astrophysical software packages are not yet able to utilize the GPU capabilities. In this proposed project we will further port our version of magneto-hdyrodyamical code FLASH and the radiation transport code PHOENIX to efficiently utilize the capabilities of GPUs. These developments will complement the recently installed GPU-cluster at the Hamburger Sternwarte and the planned GPU supercomputer at the Regionale Rechenzentrum of the University of Hamburg.

• DFG-Verfahren: Sachbeihilfen
• Beteiligte Person: Professor Dr. Peter H. Hauschildt