Efficiency of Parallel Simulations of Coupled Surface Water and Sediment Dynamics in Riverbeds
摘要
A parallel OpenMP–CUDA software for simulating multicomponent surface water and sediment transport dynamics in a shallow-water model has been developed, targeting hybrid CPU \( + \) multi-GPU platforms without GPUDirect technology. We compare the computational efficiency of two implementations on this platform: one using GPUDirect for direct GPU-to-GPU data transfer and another exchanging data via the host (CPU \( + \) DRAM). Parallelization efficiency is evaluated for different problem types. The model is applied to study riverbed morphodynamics in selected river systems.