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January 26, 2014, 12:05 |
Do any of the GPU accelerators for OpenFOAM actually work for real cases?
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It seems they all fall into one or more of the following categories:
- Don't work with (or don't work well with) the solvers that most people use (GAMG), so they publish benchmarks using a less efficient solver for the CPU baseline (PCG) - Suspiciously only have benchmarks for 2D structured meshes - Require adding $5000 in GPUs to a $1000 computer to see a 10% speedup - Third parties unable to reproduce published benchmarks I'm sure we will get there one day, but it doesn't seem like we are at the point where you can cost-effectively accelerate OpenFOAM with a GPU. Is this your general feeling as well? |
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