New PyFR Paper “Heterogeneous Computing on Mixed Unstructured Grids with PyFR”

Peter Vincent‘s original PyFR post on TechEnablement has been extremely popular. Readers should be happy to hear that the PyFR team has published a new paper, “Heterogeneous Computing on Mixed Unstructured Grids with PyFR“, showing this Python framework can perform high-order accurate unsteady simulations of flow on mixed unstructured grids using heterogeneous multi-node hardware. Specifically, after benchmarking single-node performance for various platforms, PyFR v0.2.2 is used to undertake simulations of unsteady flow over a circular cylinder at Reynolds number 3 900 using a mixed unstructured grid of prismatic and tetrahedral elements on a desktop workstation containing an Intel Xeon E5-2697 v2 CPU, an NVIDIA Tesla K40c GPU, and an AMD FirePro W9100 GPU. Both the performance and accuracy of PyFR are assessed in the paper.

For more information see:

• “PyFR: A GPU-Accelerated Next-Generation Computational Fluid Dynamics Python Framework” on TechEnablement
• “RAD (Rapid App Development) Languages for HPC and Cloud – Python, R, Julia” also on TechEnablement