GPU Accelerated Radiation-Magneto-Hydrodynamics

• Applicant: Professor Dr. Robi Stefan Banerjee
• Subject Area: Astrophysics and Astronomy
• Term: from 2013 to 2019
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 228148919

• Final Report Year: 2019

Final Report Abstract

The aim of this project was to accelerate the software packages FLASH (magneto-hydrodynamics) and PHOENX (radiation transfer) with the support of an effective GPU-utilisation for astrophysical studies. In summary, we developed a GPU-accelerated tree-based solver for the self-gravity part of the FLASH code and a new algorithm to accelerate the PHOENIX/3D radiation transfer code on the basis of OpenCL.

Publications

• 2016, New Astron., 45, 14
  Lukat, G., & Banerjee, R.
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.newast.2015.10.007)
• 2018, “Numerical Radiation Transport Algorithms for Emergent Computer Architectures”, Dissertation, Universität Hamburg
  Wichert, V.