Optimization of Full-Core Reactor Simulations on Summit

Misun Min, Yu Hsiang Lan, Paul Fischer, Elia Merzari, Stefan Kerkemeier, Malachi Phillips, Thilina Rathnayake, April Novak, Derek Gaston, Noel Chalmers, Tim Warburton

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Abstract

Nek5000/RS, a highly-performant open-source spectral element code, has recently achieved an unprecedented milestone in the simulation of nuclear reactors: the first full core computational fluid dynamics simulations of reactor cores, including pebble beds with 352,625 pebbles and 98M spectral elements (51 billion gridpoints), advanced in less than 0.25 seconds per Navier-Stokes timestep. The authors present performance and optimization considerations necessary to achieve this milestone when running on all of Summit. These optimizations led to a fourfold reduction in time-to-solution, making it possible to perform high-fidelity simulations of a single flow-through time in less than six hours for a full reactor core under prototypical conditions.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationProceedings of SC 2022
Subtitle of host publicationInternational Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis
PublisherIEEE Computer Society
ISBN (Electronic)9781665454445
DOIs
StatePublished - 2022
Event2022 International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis, SC 2022 - Dallas, United States
Duration: Nov 13 2022Nov 18 2022

Publication series

NameInternational Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis, SC
Volume2022-November
ISSN (Print)2167-4329
ISSN (Electronic)2167-4337

Conference

Conference2022 International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis, SC 2022
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityDallas
Period11/13/2211/18/22

Keywords

  • Exascale
  • Incompressible Navier-Stokes
  • Nek5000
  • NekRS
  • Scalability
  • Spectral Element

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Computer Networks and Communications
  • Computer Science Applications
  • Hardware and Architecture
  • Software

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