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Comparison of different parallel implementations of the 2+1-dimensional KPZ model and the 3-dimensional KMC model

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We show that efficient simulations of the Kardar-Parisi-Zhang interface growth in 2 + 1 dimensions and of the 3-dimensional Kinetic Monte Carlo of thermally activated diffusion can be realized both on GPUs and modern CPUs. In this article we present results of different implementations on GPUs using CUDA and OpenCL and also on CPUs using OpenCL and MPI. We investigate the runtime and scaling behavior on different architectures to find optimal solutions for solving current simulation problems in the field of statistical physics and materials science.

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  1. Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf, Institute of Ion Beam Physics and Materials Research, PO Box 51 01 19, 01314, Dresden, Germany

    J. Kelling & K. -H. Heinig

  2. Research Centre for Natural Sciences, Hungarian Academy of Sciences MTA TTK MFA, PO Box 49, 1525, Budapest, Hungary

    G. Ódor

  3. Wigner Research Centre for Physics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, PO Box 49, 1525, Budapest, Hungary

    M. F. Nagy

  4. Department of Information Technology, Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf, PO Box 51 01 19, 01314, Dresden, Germany

    H. Schulz

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Kelling, J., Ódor, G., Nagy, M.F. et al. Comparison of different parallel implementations of the 2+1-dimensional KPZ model and the 3-dimensional KMC model. Eur. Phys. J. Spec. Top. 210, 175–187 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1140/epjst/e2012-01645-8

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