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A parallel solution to finding nodal neighbors in generic meshes.

Pian Qi¹, Gang Mei¹, Nengxiong Xu¹

¹School of Engineering and Technology, China University of Geosciences (Beijing), 100083, Beijing, China.

|June 30, 2020

Summary

This study introduces a Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) accelerated method for efficiently identifying neighboring nodes and elements in large meshes. The parallel approach significantly speeds up computations compared to traditional serial methods.

Keywords:

Computational geometry GPU Mesh topology Neighbors finding Parallel Programming

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Area of Science:

Computer Science
Computational Geometry
Scientific Computing

Background:

Finding neighboring nodes and elements in large meshes is computationally intensive.
Existing methods can be inefficient for large-scale datasets.

Purpose of the Study:

To present a parallelized solution for identifying one-ring neighbors for each vertex in generic meshes.
To leverage Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) acceleration for improved computational efficiency.

Main Methods:

Implementation of a parallel algorithm utilizing Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) capabilities.
The solution relies on parallel sorting, scan, and reduction operations.
Avoidance of mesh-coloring simplifies implementation.

Main Results:

Achieved speedups of approximately 55x for nodal neighbors and 90x for element neighbors compared to serial methods.
Demonstrated efficiency and ease of implementation.
Required allocation of significant device memory.

Conclusions:

The parallel GPU-based approach offers substantial performance gains for neighbor finding in large meshes.
The method is straightforward to implement, requiring only integer arrays.
Effective for large-scale mesh processing tasks.