Communications on Applied Mathematics and Computation ›› 2023, Vol. 5 ›› Issue (1): 97-115.doi: 10.1007/s42967-021-00129-2

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A GPU-Accelerated Mixed-Precision WENO Method for Extremal Black Hole and Gravitational Wave Physics Computations

Scott E. Field1, Sigal Gottlieb1, Zachary J. Grant2, Leah F. Isherwood1, Gaurav Khanna1,3   

  1. 1 University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, North Dartmouth, MA 02747, USA;
    2 Department of Computational and Applied Mathematics, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN 37830, USA;
    3 University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI 02881, USA
  • 收稿日期:2020-10-02 修回日期:2021-01-22 出版日期:2023-03-20 发布日期:2023-03-08
  • 通讯作者: Gaurav Khanna,E-mail:gkhanna@umassd.edu E-mail:gkhanna@umassd.edu
  • 基金资助:
    Many of the computations were performed on the MIT/IBM Satori GPU supercomputer supported by the Massachusetts Green High Performance Computing Center (MGHPCC) and Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL)’s Summit leadership-class supercomputer under Director Discretionary allocation AST166. We thank Sebastiano Bernuzzi for helpful discussions. The authors acknowledge support of NSF Grants No. PHY-2010685 (G.K) and No. DMS-1912716 (S.F, S.G, and G.K), AFOSR Grant No. FA9550-18-1-0383 (S.G) and Office of Naval Research/Defense University Research Instrumentation Program (ONR/DURIP) Grant No. N00014181255. This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. DMS-1439786 while a subset of the authors were in residence at the Institute for Computational and Experimental Research in Mathematics in Providence, RI, during the Advances in Computational Relativity program. A part of this research is sponsored by the Office of Advanced Scientific Computing Research; US Department of Energy, and was performed at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, which is managed by UT-Battelle, LLC under Contract no. De-AC05-00OR22725. This manuscript has been authored by UT-Battelle, LLC, under contract DE-AC05-00OR22725 with the US Department of Energy. The United States Government retains and the publisher, by accepting the article for publication, acknowledges that the United States Government retains a non-exclusive, paid-up, irrevocable, world-wide license to publish or reproduce the published form of this manuscript, or allow others to do so, for United States Government purposes.

A GPU-Accelerated Mixed-Precision WENO Method for Extremal Black Hole and Gravitational Wave Physics Computations

Scott E. Field1, Sigal Gottlieb1, Zachary J. Grant2, Leah F. Isherwood1, Gaurav Khanna1,3   

  1. 1 University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, North Dartmouth, MA 02747, USA;
    2 Department of Computational and Applied Mathematics, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN 37830, USA;
    3 University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI 02881, USA
  • Received:2020-10-02 Revised:2021-01-22 Online:2023-03-20 Published:2023-03-08
  • Contact: Gaurav Khanna,E-mail:gkhanna@umassd.edu E-mail:gkhanna@umassd.edu
  • Supported by:
    Many of the computations were performed on the MIT/IBM Satori GPU supercomputer supported by the Massachusetts Green High Performance Computing Center (MGHPCC) and Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL)’s Summit leadership-class supercomputer under Director Discretionary allocation AST166. We thank Sebastiano Bernuzzi for helpful discussions. The authors acknowledge support of NSF Grants No. PHY-2010685 (G.K) and No. DMS-1912716 (S.F, S.G, and G.K), AFOSR Grant No. FA9550-18-1-0383 (S.G) and Office of Naval Research/Defense University Research Instrumentation Program (ONR/DURIP) Grant No. N00014181255. This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. DMS-1439786 while a subset of the authors were in residence at the Institute for Computational and Experimental Research in Mathematics in Providence, RI, during the Advances in Computational Relativity program. A part of this research is sponsored by the Office of Advanced Scientific Computing Research; US Department of Energy, and was performed at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, which is managed by UT-Battelle, LLC under Contract no. De-AC05-00OR22725. This manuscript has been authored by UT-Battelle, LLC, under contract DE-AC05-00OR22725 with the US Department of Energy. The United States Government retains and the publisher, by accepting the article for publication, acknowledges that the United States Government retains a non-exclusive, paid-up, irrevocable, world-wide license to publish or reproduce the published form of this manuscript, or allow others to do so, for United States Government purposes.

摘要: We develop and use a novel mixed-precision weighted essentially non-oscillatory (WENO) method for solving the Teukolsky equation, which arises when modeling perturbations of Kerr black holes. We show that WENO methods outperform higher-order finite-difference methods, standard in the discretization of the Teukolsky equation, due to the need to add dissipation for stability purposes in the latter. In particular, as the WENO scheme uses no additional dissipation, it is well suited for scenarios requiring long-time evolution such as the study of price tails and gravitational wave emission from extreme mass ratio binaries. In the mixed-precision approach, the expensive computation of the WENO weights is performed in reduced floating-point precision that results in a significant speedup factor of ≈ 3.3. In addition, we use state-of-the-art Nvidia general-purpose graphics processing units and cluster parallelism to further accelerate the WENO computations. Our optimized WENO solver can be used to quickly generate accurate results of significance in the field of black hole and gravitational wave physics. We apply our solver to study the behavior of the Aretakis charge—a conserved quantity, that if detected by a gravitational wave observatory like LIGO/Virgo would prove the existence of extremal black holes.

关键词: Numerical methods, Finite differencing, Hyperbolic, Partial differential equations, Black holesblack holes, WENO

Abstract: We develop and use a novel mixed-precision weighted essentially non-oscillatory (WENO) method for solving the Teukolsky equation, which arises when modeling perturbations of Kerr black holes. We show that WENO methods outperform higher-order finite-difference methods, standard in the discretization of the Teukolsky equation, due to the need to add dissipation for stability purposes in the latter. In particular, as the WENO scheme uses no additional dissipation, it is well suited for scenarios requiring long-time evolution such as the study of price tails and gravitational wave emission from extreme mass ratio binaries. In the mixed-precision approach, the expensive computation of the WENO weights is performed in reduced floating-point precision that results in a significant speedup factor of ≈ 3.3. In addition, we use state-of-the-art Nvidia general-purpose graphics processing units and cluster parallelism to further accelerate the WENO computations. Our optimized WENO solver can be used to quickly generate accurate results of significance in the field of black hole and gravitational wave physics. We apply our solver to study the behavior of the Aretakis charge—a conserved quantity, that if detected by a gravitational wave observatory like LIGO/Virgo would prove the existence of extremal black holes.

Key words: Numerical methods, Finite differencing, Hyperbolic, Partial differential equations, Black holesblack holes, WENO

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