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Publications and source records attributed to Yasuhiro Nakahara.
A way to accelerate DEM calculations on the GPUs is developed. We examined how warp divergences take place in the contact detection and the force calculations taking account of the GPU architecture. Then we showed a strategy to reduce the impact of the warp divergences on the runtime of the DEM force calculations.
We investigate applicability of GPU to DEM. NVIDIA's code obtained superior performance than CPU in computational time. A model of contact forces in NVIDIA's code is too simple for practical use. We modify this model by replacing it with the practical model. The simulation shows that the practical model obtains the computing speed 6 times faster than the practical one on CPU while 7 times slower than the simple one on GPU. The result are analyzed.