Improved Multi-GPU parallelization of a Lagrangian Transport Model

11/22/2022

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by   Saheed Bolarinwa, et al.

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This report highlights our work on improving GPU parallelization by supporting compute nodes with multiple GPUs. However, since the default support for multi-GPUs in OpenACC is limited[6], the current implementation allows each MPI process to access only a single GPU. Thus, the only way to take full advantage of multi-GPU nodes in the current version is to launch multiple processes, which increases resource contention. We investigated the benefits of having only one process offload to all available GPU devices.