High Performance Building Simulation on Heterogeneous Platforms
Sponsored by Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL)
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Project Description
Powerful computational capabilities have always been sought after by those working in fields that require vast amount of calculations to be done in a relatively short amount of time and a low cost. To meet this needs, we are conducting research in performing high performance building simulation using multi-core CPU and GPU (graphics processing units). By optimizing the numerical algorithm and using the multi-core CPU and GPU, we have successfully accelerated the indoor airflow simulation up to 1,500 times and daylighting simulation up to 12,000 times.
Collaborator
Press Release
- UM College of Engineering News “SBS lab’s Research: Simulating Dense Gas Transport”
Journal Article
- W. Tian, T. A. Sevilla, W. Zuo 2017. “A Systematic Evaluation of Accelerating Indoor Airflow Simulations Using Cross Platform Parallel Computing.” Journal of Building Performance Simulation, 10(3), pp. 243-255.