应用多GPU的可压缩湍流并行计算

利用CUDA Fortran语言发展了基于图形处理器(GPU)的计算流体力学可压缩湍流求解器。该求解器基于结构网格有限体积法,空间离散采用AUSMPW+格式,湍流模型为k-ωSST两方程模型,采用MPI实现并行计算。针对最新的GPU架构,讨论了通量计算的优化方法及GPU计算与PCIe数据传输、MPI通信重叠的多GPU并行算法。进行了超声速进气道及空天飞机等算例的数值模拟以验证GPU在大网格量情况下的加速性能。计算结果表明:相对于Intel Xeon E5-2670 CPU单一核心的计算时间,单块NVIDIA GTX Titan Black GPU可获得107~125倍的加速比。利用四块GPU实现了复杂外形1.34亿网格的快速计算,并行效率为91.6%。     

基于MPI+CUDA的异构并行可压缩流求解器

在CPU/GPU异构体系结构计算集群上,建立了基于MPI+CUDA的异构并行可压缩流求解器。讨论了异构结构上的可压缩流并行算法的并行模式,在CPU上执行计算密集度低、指令复杂的计算任务,在GPU上执行计算密集度高、指令单一的计算任务。通过数个算例,对比了异构并行计算和传统CPU并行计算计算结果和计算效率。将该算法运用于高超声速流动的数值模拟中,数值结果显示,基于MPI+CUDA的异构并行可压缩流求解器鲁棒性好,计算效率较CPU同构并行计算提高10倍以上。     

基于GPU的弹道快速计算方法

针对目前飞行器航迹规划中弹道计算量大、耗时长的问题,结合GPU大规模并行计算特性,提出了一种基于GPU的弹道快速计算方法.该方法以4阶Runge-Kutta (R-K)法为基础求解弹道微分方程组,通过计算资源的分配、数据流分段将弹道计算任务映射到GPU线程模型,利用CPU加GPU异构模型的数据流控制能力,实现上千条弹道的并行计算;实验表明该方法计算精度满足要求,并获得几十倍理想加速效果;也为航迹规划系统其他大规模并行计算提供了新的解决思路.     

高超声速乘波飞行器三维流场的并行数值模拟

针对高超声速乘波飞行器三维绕流流场,在基于LINUX+MPI系统的分布式并行计算平台上,并行求解了三维雷诺平均的N-S方程。并行数值方法采用的是有限体积方法(FVM)、OC-TVD差分格式、B-L代数湍流模型及流场分区的并行方法。计算结果表明,所采用的并行数值模拟方法能够求解包含强激波的流场,激波穿越区域边界时无断层、错位等通量不守恒的现象。并行计算效率高,8个处理机计算时的并行加速比达到了6 8。     

考虑航行姿态的船模阻力及流场数值预报

为精确得到船模阻力及流场,研究了网格划分、湍流模型及船模姿态对预报结果的影响。首先,采用切割体网格技术及棱柱层网格技术划分了多套网格,研究网格尺寸大小及棱柱层参数对阻力、兴波及伴流场的影响;然后,比较了三种不同湍流模型在船模阻力及伴流场预报中的差异;最后,基于合理的网格划分及湍流模型,采用DFBI的方法预报了船模在不同航速下的姿态及阻力。计算结果表明:当Fr0.25时,不考虑航行姿态时阻力计算误差可达到18.3%。考虑航行姿态变化后,阻力计算误差小于3%;升沉和纵倾的计算值和试验值吻合较好。由此证明:采用DFBI方法考虑船体航行姿态的变化避免了网格变形或者重构,具有较好的收敛性和计算精度。     

基于CPU-GPU混合计算平台的RNA二级结构预测算法并行化研究

RNA二级结构预测是生物信息学领域重要的研究方向,基于最小自由能模型的Zuker算法是目前该领域最典型使用最广泛的算法之一。本文基于CPU GPU的混合计算平台实现了对Zuker算法的并行和加速。根据CPU和GPU计算性能的差异,通过合理的任务分配策略,实现二者之间的并行协作计算和处理单元间的负载平衡;针对CPU和GPU的不同硬件特性,对Zuker算法在CPU和GPU上的实现分别采取了不同的并行优化方法,提高了混合加速系统的计算性能。实验结果表明,CPU处理单元在混合系统中承担了14%以上的计算任务,与传统的多核CPU并行方案相比,采用混合并行加速方法可获得15.93的全局加速比;与最优的单纯GPU加速方案相比,可获得16%的性能提升,并且该混合计算方案可用于对其它生物信息学序列分析应用的并行和加速。     

基于传输方程空化模型的定常自然空化流场数值计算

采用基于传输方程的空化模型,应用自主开发的软件对水翼和水下回转体定常自然空化流场进行了数值计算。采用基于压力修正和多块结构化网格的有限体积方法数值求解Favre平均的NS方程,运用k-ε两方程加壁函数的湍流模式封闭雷诺应力。计算结果与已有实验结果符合较好。     

面向复杂几何模型的多级并行四面体网格生成算法

高性能计算机的快速发展为数值模拟提供了必需的硬件环境,数值模拟领域对网格的需求已高达数十亿到数百亿量级,而网格生成作为数值模拟的重要一环,其发展则相对滞后,很难满足并行数值模拟求解器对大规模网格的需求。本文面向复杂几何模型提出一种多级并行四面体网格生成算法,该算法首先基于模型的几何特征建立网格的尺寸场,并基于尺寸场和几何实体间的邻接关系对几何实体进行分组,将分组后的几何实体分配到不同的计算节点,在计算节点间采用前沿推进法实现三角形面网格的并行生成,然后在计算节点内对三角形面网格进行二级区域分解,将分解后的子网格分配到各进程中,最后在进程内采用多线程并行方法实现四面体网格的并行生成。通过实际应用三峡大坝模型进行验证,该算法具有良好的并行效率和可扩展性,可以在数千处理器核上实现十亿规模高质量四面体网格的并行生成。     

CPU-GPU协同加速Kriging插值的负载均衡方法

Kriging插值算法被广泛应用于地学各领域,有着极其重要的现实意义,但在面对大规模输出网格及大量输入采样点时,不可避免地遇到了性能瓶颈。利用Open CL和Open MP在异构平台上实现了CPU与GPU协同加速普通Kriging插值。针对Kriging插值中采样点的不规则分布及CPU和GPU由于体系结构差异对其的不同适应性,提出一种基于不同设备间计算性能的差异和数据分布特点的负载均衡方法。试验结果表明,该方法能有效提高普通Kriging插值速度,同时还能节约存储空间和提高访存效率。     

弹道导弹诸元与弹道并行计算方法

变射点、动基座和机动发射是现代导弹武器系统发展的主要方向。为提高武器的快速反应能力,在现有硬件计算条件下降低弹道导弹诸元与弹道计算时间,结合弹道导弹诸元与弹道模型的特点,利用并行计算技术,建立了相应的并行计算模型,采用MPI设计研究了诸元和弹道并行计算的实现方法,通过仿真验证,证明该方法能有效提高弹道计算速度,得到较高的加速比。     

An Unlikely Alliance: Portuguese and South African Airpower in Angola, 1968–1974

The war that Portugal was obliged to fight in Africa began in 1961 and immediately stretched the resources of its armed forces. Nowhere was this thinness more apparent than in policing the vast territory of Angola. The east and southeast of Angola were particularly vulnerable, as the area was a vast, sparsely populated region characterised by enormous featureless plains or chanas covered in tall grass and broken by an extensive river system and mountainous forests. The only military solution to policing these immense spaces was aviation and specifically the helicopter that could carry troops into battle, protect them with a gunship and bring them home when the operation was concluded. The immediate problem for the Portuguese Air Force (Força Aérea Portuguesa or FAP) in Angola and elsewhere was a scarcity of helicopters. The solution was an alliance with South Africa, which had a strong inventory of Alouette IIIs, to help in policing the east. This move was likewise in the interest of South Africa, as its threat came from Zambia through south-eastern Angola. This article examines the strategic and tactical development of this unusual, cross-cultural alliance and the symbiotic relationship that resulted in destruction of the enemies of both in Angola.     

Helping hands: civil–military cooperation and Italy's military operation abroad

In the Post-Bipolar Era the growing complexity of the military operations requires a new approach for the resolution of international crises. Since the end of the Cold War, peace support operations (PSO) have become the mainstay and principal occupation of most Western armies. At the same time, Italy has been one of the most important actors in such an area. The article focuses on the cooperation between military and civil components (a process called CIMIC) as a key variable in the Italian PSOs. We will analyse in detail the main lessons learned from past military interventions as well as the general context in which new tendencies are taking place. The maintaining of a minimum security frame becomes essential to fulfil activities ‘collateral’ to the mission: reconstructing services and infrastructure, food distribution, water and medication, law and order, de-mining, training of local forces, and supporting local institutions. These are the main tasks to obtain thrust and support from the population.     

Terrorism,insurgency, kidnapping,and security in Africa's energy sector

Energy continues to serve as the bedrock of modern economies and the main driver of modern society. For Africa, the production and supply of energy resources such as crude oil, natural gas, uranium, coal, biomass, biofuels and other renewables are an important source of employment, rents, taxes, royalties and profits. This sector brings in several tens of billions of dollars of revenue annually. The production and delivery of such resources, however, depend on critical infrastructures such as pipelines, refineries, processing plants, terminals, rigs, electrical energy pylons, substations, pump stations, vessels, and tankers. These infrastructures have been attacked by terrorists, insurgents, vandals and saboteurs, all of whom see them as targets against which to register their grievances and extract concessions from the state. This paper is a chronological account of some of the documented incidents of terrorism, insurgency, kidnapping, destruction, sabotage, and human casualties suffered in the oil and gas sectors in Africa between 1999 and 2012. It is based on data extracted from the databases of the RAND Database of World Terrorism Incidents and the University of Maryland's Global Terrorism Database (GTD).     

国内外结构钢焊条研究的现状与发展

本文主要介绍了国外焊条的现状和发展趋势,包括焊条的高韧性、高效率、低尘低毒和耐吸潮性能,为国内的焊条研究提供了参考依据。     

A Sign of Victory?: ‘Scottish Swords’ and Other Weapons in the Possession of the ‘Auld Innemie’

Many late medieval documents, notably inventories of arms and armour, of Englishmen contain references to ‘Scottish swords’ and other weapons. What did the compilers of these documents mean when they described a weapon as ‘Scottish’? How did such weapons come to be in the possession of these men? This article will attempt to explain this phenomenon drawing on primary documentary sources and surviving material culture from Glasgow Museums’ collections and others, as well as artworks from the period.     

Tacit support for terrorism: The rapprochement between the USSR and Palestinian guerrilla organizations following the 1967 war

This article demonstrates the inconsistent and wavering Soviet attitude towards national liberation movements in general and the Palestinian organizations in particular. Until the late 1960s, the Soviets viewed these organizations with suspicion, hesitating to engage in political dialogue with them. However, in the 1970s, political and military events in the region, as well as modifications in the Kremlin's Cold War strategies, led to a general shift towards the Middle East in Soviet foreign policy. Soviet leaders showed increased willingness to provide certain Palestinian organizations with arms with which to conduct terrorist activities against Israeli, pro-Israeli, Jewish and Western targets. The article explores the complex relations between Palestinian organizations and the USSR in the field of international terror. The study also exposes and analyzes the nature and content of Soviet–Palestinian arms dialogues and transactions. It provides clear evidence that Soviet policymakers and other luminaries were fully informed of, and sometimes directly involved in, these transactions and dialogues at the highest levels.     

A1 Qaeda and the radical Islamic challenge to western strategy

The September 11 global crisis prompted by the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon raises major questions concerning the nature and trajectory of terrorism in the post-Cold War global order. Hitherto, terrorism has been largely debated by analysts at the level of nation states. Terrorist and insurgent movements have also been largely anchored in nationalist and ethnic power bases even when they have sought to mobilise a transnational ideological appeal on religious or class grounds. There have been a few exceptions to this pattern such as the alliance between the German Baader-Meinhof group and the Japanese Red Army Faction, but even such international alliances as this did not, until at least the 1980s, presage anything like a global terrorist network necessitating a global strategic response. This study examines terrorism and global strategic responses.     

Helping hands: external support for the KNU insurgency in Burma

This article analyses to what extent the Burmese KNU insurgency made use of external support from states, refugees, and diasporas. Based on extensive fieldwork it is concluded that support from neighbouring states and refugees has for years kept the Karen rebellion alive. Western countries perceived forms of resistance to the illegitimate Burmese regime as just and have therefore played a crucial role in the continuation of conflict in Karen State. It is important that policymakers and donors as well as executing organizations continue to reflect critically on the way they exercise their work.     

Cyberpower in Strategic Affairs: Neither Unthinkable nor Blessed

Abstract

This article explores the effect of connectivity on strategic affairs. It argues that the effect on war's character is potentially, although not yet shown in practice, considerably large. Its effect upon the distribution of power among states in the international system is small, contrary to the claims of ‘cyberwar’ alarmists. All told, however, its effect upon strategic affairs is complex. On the one hand, it represents a significant advance in the ‘complexification’ of state strategies, understood in the sense of the production of intended effects. On the other hand, strategists today – still predominantly concerned with the conflicts and confrontations of states and organised military power – are generally missing the power which non-traditional strategic actors, better adapted to the network flows of the information age, are beginning to deploy. These new forms of organization and coercion will challenge the status quo.