D3Q19 Lattice

I managed to get some time last night to convert my LBM implementation to CUDA. Its far from optimal at the moment. Here is a screen shot showing the lid-driven-cavity with two obstacles, one horizontal and one vertical in the box. The visualization is from the middle plane. The obstacles are not shaded but are easily seen in the picture as an area of black. This image was taken after 16000 timeslices and some nice stable vortices have developed.

Lid driven cavity with obstacles

Once again the importance of making a gold kernel cannot be understated as I had quite a number of bugs in my initial CUDA implementation. I use a "multi-tap" type approach when debugging where the kernels write intermediate results to device memory as they go along. This can be easily compared to data coming from the various stages of the gold kernel and makes it much easier to identify the source of the error. Keep in mind the CUDA floats will never be the same as the CPU's floats (CPU uses 80 bits to compute intermediate results).