Out-of-core proximity computation for particle-based fluid simulations

Duksu Kim, Myung Bae Son, Young J. Kim, Jeong Mo Hong, Sung Eui Yoon

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Abstract

To meet the demand of higher realism, a high number of particles are used for particle-based fluid simulations, resulting in various out-of-core issues. In this paper, we present an out-of-core proximity computation, especially, e-Nearest Neighbor (e-NN) search, commonly used for particle-based fluid simulations, to handle such big data sets consisting of tens of millions of particles. Specifically, we identify a maximal work set that a GPU can process efficiently in an in-core mode. As a main technical component, we compute a memory footprint for processing a given work set based on our expectation model of the number of neighbors of particles. Our method can naturally utilize heterogeneous computing resources such as CPUs and GPUs, and has been applied to large-scale fluid simulations based on smoothed particle hydrodynamics. We have demonstrated that our method handles up to 65 M particles and processes up to 15 M ε-NN queries per second by using two CPUs and a GPU, which has only 3 GB video memory. This result is up to 51 × higher performance than a single CPU-core version for the out-of-core case. This high performance for large-scale data given a limited video memory space is achieved mainly thanks to the high accuracy of our memory estimation method.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationHigh-Performance Graphics 2014, HPG 2014 - Proceedings
EditorsIngo Wald, Jonathan Ragan-Kelley
PublisherEurographics Association
Pages79-87
Number of pages9
ISBN (Electronic)9783905674606
DOIs
StatePublished - 2014
EventHigh-Performance Graphics 2014, HPG 2014 - Lyon, France
Duration: 23 Jun 201425 Jun 2014

Publication series

NameHigh-Performance Graphics 2014, HPG 2014 - Proceedings

Conference

ConferenceHigh-Performance Graphics 2014, HPG 2014
Country/TerritoryFrance
CityLyon
Period23/06/1425/06/14

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© The Eurographics Association 2014.

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