From: Peter Munch Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2024 15:28:30 +0000 (+0200) Subject: Write text X-Git-Url: https://gitweb.dealii.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=817be0c677107772e4e9c19d6f799b7cb7a19bda;p=release-papers.git Write text --- diff --git a/9.6/paper.tex b/9.6/paper.tex index e82b6d2..43d5cc9 100644 --- a/9.6/paper.tex +++ b/9.6/paper.tex @@ -248,7 +248,7 @@ The major changes of this release are: operators, including matrix-free based versions and versions for p-refinement (Section~\ref{sec:mf}). \item Different additions to the non-matching infrastructure (see - Section~\ref{sec:nonmatching}) In particular, the new class + Section~\ref{sec:nonmatching}). In particular, the new class FERemoteEvaluation provides support for evaluating finite element shape functions and solutions on parts of the domain stored by other MPI processes. @@ -292,11 +292,16 @@ which we briefly outline in the remainder of this section: a whole section 2.x for it.} \item changes of interface of AffineConstraints \todo[inline]{Wolfgang to write} -\item clean up: orientation +\item We have clean up the orientation definition of faces in (2D and) 3D. Three + Booleans used to be used to define it for hexedras: \textit{orientation}, + \textit{flip}, and \textit{rotation}. While introducing simplex and mixed + mesh support in \dealii, we merged these three into a single variable of type + char internally. Now, we also expose these to the outside, leading to + multiple incompatibilities, since the template type of different data + structures has changed and the number of input/output arguments have decreased. \todo[inline]{DavidW: Please describe some details here.} -\item Various performance improvements throughout the library. - \todo[inline]{Everyone: This sentence would be more useful if we can - provide a few examples.} +\item We have performed various performance improvements throughout the library, + which we detail in the following sections. \item The \texttt{SolverGMRES} class now offers a third orthogonalization method, the classical Gram--Schmidt method with delayed orthogonalization \cite{Bielich2022}. Furthermore, the solver now specifies the maximal basis @@ -327,29 +332,58 @@ can be found %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% \subsection{Updates to multigrid and matrix-free algorithms}\label{sec:mf} -\todo[inline]{Martin/Peter: The list in the introduction also mentions the two-level - operators. Is this the right place to also discuss these?} - +%\todo[inline]{Martin/Peter: The list in the introduction also mentions the two-level +% operators. Is this the right place to also discuss these?} + +We made different updates to the matrix-free infrastructure in \dealii. These include: \begin{itemize} -\item VectorizedArray for ARM Neon -\item Improvement for evaluation of values and gradients for - $H$(div)-conforming Raviart--Thomas elements on non-Cartesian elements -\item Improved internal data structures of the tensor-product evaluators as - well as the evaluators for simplex elements, which speed up the evaluation - in several scenarios, especially multi-component systems. +\item Our own implementation of \texttt{std::simd} (\texttt{VectorizedArray}) now + also Arm Neon. Arm Neon is an architecture extension for + the Arm Cortex-A and Arm Cortex-R series of processors, commonly used in Apple + products. With these instructions 2 doubles or 4 floats can be processed in one + go. Since matrix-free infrastructure works directly with \texttt{VectorizedArray} + data structures, it automatically benefits from this extension. + +\item We made some improvement for evaluation of values and gradients for + $H$(div)-conforming Raviart--Thomas elements on non-Cartesian elements. + +\item We furthermore improved the internal data structures of the + tensor-product evaluators as well as the evaluators for simplex elements, + which speed up the evaluation in several scenarios, especially multi-component systems. \end{itemize} +Furthermore, we performed substantial improvements to the global-coarsening +multigrid infrastructure: \texttt{MGTransferMF} (previously: +\texttt{MGTransferGlobalCoarsening}) and \texttt{MGTwoLevelTransfer}. They +now allow to perform local smoothing, which is a key step towards unifying +all transfer operators in \dealii. \texttt{MGTwoLevelTransfer} now also +can be set up with an existing \texttt{MatrixFree} object in the case +of $p$-multigrid, allowing to reduce the setup costs significantly. + %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% \subsection{Advances in non-matching support}\label{sec:nonmatching} -\todo[inline]{All: If you contributed to this functionality, please - help flesh out this section.} +%\todo[inline]{All: If you contributed to this functionality, please +% help flesh out this section.} + +We made different advances to the non-matching infrastructure in \dealii. These include: \begin{itemize} -\item non-nested multigrid: new features and performance improvement -\item FERemoteEvaluation +\item The performance of the non-nested multigrid infrastructure +(\texttt{MGTwoLevelTransferNon\-Nested}) has been improved significantly by avoiding +redundant copy operations. Furthermore, the support for simplex-shaped cells and +multiple-component elements have been added. +\item The new class \texttt{FERemoteEvaluation} has been added. +This is a class to access data +in a distributed matrix-free loop for non-matching discretizations. +Interfaces are named with \texttt{FEEvaluation} in mind. Key component is the +underlying MPI communication, which is done via \texttt{RemotePointEvaluation}. +Tutorial \texttt{step-89} has been added to present its usage +in the context of an application to acoustic conservation equations~\cite{heinz2023high}. \item FECouplingValues + +\todo[inline]{Luca: Please complete} \end{itemize} %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% @@ -720,6 +754,8 @@ M.~Maier was partially supported by NSF Award DMS-2045636 and and by the Air Force Office of Scientific Research under grant/contract number FA9550-23-1-0007. +\todo[inline]{Peter: Anything to list here?} + M.~Schreter-Fleischhacker was supported by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) Schrödinger Fellowship (project number: J4577) and by the European Research Council through the ERC Starting Grant ExcelAM (project number: 101117579).