Performance Optimization of 3D Lattice Boltzmann Flow Solver on a GPU

Table 2

Summary of experiments.

Experiment	Description
Serial	Serial implementation on single CPU core
Parallel
AoS	AoS scheme
SoA_Push_Only	SoA scheme + push data scheme
SoA_Pull
SoA_Pull_Only	SoA scheme + pull data scheme
SoA_Pull_BR	SoA scheme + pull data scheme + branch divergence removal
SoA_Pull_RR	SoA scheme + pull data scheme + register reduction
SoA_Pull_Full	SoA scheme + pull data scheme + branch divergence removal + register usage reduction
SoA_Pull_Full_Tiling	SoA scheme + pull data scheme + branch divergence removal + register usage reduction + tiling with data layout change