Description

EnergyPlus is the flagship whole-building energy simulation program developed by the US Department of Energy. This paper describes the various approaches to improve the performance of the interior radiant heat exchange algorithm. Vectorization, optimized Basic Linear Algebra Subprograms (BLAS) library, multithreading, and Graphical Processing Unit (GPU) computation are all investigated. The approach with the best performance, while maintaining drop-in compatibility with existing Energy-Plus code, is the optimized BLAS library. However, GPU computing has the potential to reduce simulation time by orders of magnitude with major refactoring to EnergyPlus.

Citation: ASHRAE/IBPSA-USA Bldg Simulation Conf, Sept 2018

Product Details

Published:

2018

Number of Pages:

4

Units of Measure:

Dual

File Size:

1 file , 1.1 MB

Product Code(s):

D-BSC18-C003