Introduction

Jan. 17, 2012: Updated instructions for OpenFOAM 2.1.x

ofgpu v0.2 is the latest version of our free GPL library that provides GPU (sometimes referred to as GPGPU) linear solvers for OpenFOAM® v2.1.x. Sponsored by the Microsoft DPE team, the library targets NVIDIA CUDA devices on Windows, Linux, and (untested) Mac OS X. While this effort is still in the experimental stage, GPU acceleration holds the promise of providing significant speed up at relatively low cost and with low power consumption compared to other alternatives. If you want to try our ofgpu library with OpenFOAM then we recommend that you use either a dedicated (i.e., not displaying graphics) high-performance NVIDIA graphics card or a TESLA card.

OpenFOAM on Windows using ofgpu

For the latest version of ofgpu for OpenFOAM visit "GPU v0.2 Linear Solver Library for OpenFOAM".

Introduction

ofgpu is our free GPL library that provides GPU (sometimes referred to as GPGPU) linear solvers for OpenFOAM®. Sponsored by the Microsoft DPE team, the library targets NVIDIA CUDA devices on Windows, Linux, and (untested) Mac OS X. While this effort is still in the experimental stage, GPU acceleration holds the promise of providing significant speed up at relatively low cost and with low power consumption compared to other alternatives. If you want to try our ofgpu library with OpenFOAM then we recommend that you use either a dedicated (i.e., not displaying graphics) high-performance NVIDIA graphics card or a TESLA card.

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For the latest version of our Windows patch for OpenFOAM visit "OpenFOAM 2.1.x on Windows 64-bit with MS MPI".

The latest version of our Windows patch for OpenFOAM® 1.6.x now supports 64-bit compilation using the MinGW-w64 cross-compiler and parallel computation using the native Windows MPI implementation provided by the free Microsoft HPC SDK and also available on Microsoft Windows HPC Server 2008 for clusters. Be warned, as always, that to build OpenFOAM for Windows with a cross-compiler requires expert knowledge of Windows and Linux utilities and compilers.