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Preparing nuclear astrophysics for exascale

  • Max P. Katz
  • , Ann Almgren
  • , Maria Barrios Sazo
  • , Kiran Eiden
  • , Kevin Gott
  • , Alice Harpole
  • , Jean M. Sexton
  • , Don E. Willcox
  • , Weiqun Zhang
  • , Michael Zingale
  • NVIDIA
  • Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
  • Stony Brook University
  • University of California at Berkeley

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Abstract

Astrophysical explosions such as supernovae are fascinating events that require sophisticated algorithms and substantial computational power to model. Castro and MAESTROeX are nuclear astrophysics codes that simulate thermonuclear fusion in the context of supernovae and X-ray bursts. Examining these nuclear burning processes using high resolution simulations is critical for understanding how these astrophysical explosions occur. In this paper we describe the changes that have been made to these codes to transform them from standard MPI + OpenMP codes targeted at petascale CPU-based systems into a form compatible with the pre-exascale systems now online and the exascale systems coming soon. We then discuss what new science is possible to run on systems such as Summit and Perlmutter that could not have been achieved on the previous generation of supercomputers.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of SC 2020
Subtitle of host publicationInternational Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis
PublisherIEEE Computer Society
ISBN (Electronic)9781728199986
DOIs
StatePublished - Nov 2020
Event2020 International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis, SC 2020 - Virtual, Atlanta, United States
Duration: Nov 9 2020Nov 19 2020

Publication series

NameInternational Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis, SC
Volume2020-November
ISSN (Print)2167-4329
ISSN (Electronic)2167-4337

Conference

Conference2020 International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis, SC 2020
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityVirtual, Atlanta
Period11/9/2011/19/20

Keywords

  • adaptive mesh refinement
  • astrophysics
  • computational fluid dynamics
  • gravity
  • hydrodynamics
  • nuclear reactions

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