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Next Generation Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) Codes

Award Information
Agency: Department of Defense
Branch: Defense Threat Reduction Agency
Contract: HDTRA1-10-P-0020
Agency Tracking Number: T092-015-0035
Amount: $99,892.00
Phase: Phase I
Program: SBIR
Solicitation Topic Code: DTRA092-015
Solicitation Number: 2009.2
Timeline
Solicitation Year: 2009
Award Year: 2010
Award Start Date (Proposal Award Date): 2010-02-05
Award End Date (Contract End Date): 2010-08-04
Small Business Information
1211 Pine Hill Road
McLean, VA 22101
United States
DUNS: 835912668
HUBZone Owned: No
Woman Owned: Yes
Socially and Economically Disadvantaged: No
Principal Investigator
 Rainald Lohner
 Chief Scientist
 (703) 506-1956
 rlohner@gmu.edu
Business Contact
 Claudia Lohner
Title: President
Phone: (703) 506-1956
Email: claudia@appliedsimulations.com
Research Institution
N/A
Abstract

Accurate blast simulations based on first-principles, 3-D hydro-codes require hours on notebook PCs. Graphical processing units (GPUs) offer the potential of drastic reductions in run-times. Typical computational fluid dynamics codes perform of the order of 10-100 operations per memory fetch and store. In order to harness the potential of graphical processing units (GPUs), near-perfect streaming (or threading) of this information to and from processors is key to performance. During Phase I, we will develop optimal renumbering techniques for GPUs. These will then be incorporated into locfct.f, the core hydro-solver of FEFLO, a commonly used legacy code for blast-simulations. At the same time, locfct.f will be ported to the CPU via CUDA. Two typical blast simulation test cases will be computed and compared to the CPU implementation. The anticipated speedup is of the order of 1:8.

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