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Experiment with maximum order in VODE

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Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
25/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
cpp
Domain
hpc, performance

Research direction

Start in integration/VODE/vode_type.H at the hardcoded maximum order of 5. Experiment with a lower maximum-order limit and compare the tradeoff between per-step accuracy, per-step performance, GPU thread-local memory use, and overall burn time; done means the results support or reject lowering the limit.

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integrator reactions student project

The maximum order in VODE is hardcoded to 5. We should experiment to see what happens if we use a lower limit on maximum order. On GPUs thread-local memory is limited so it is possible that the tradeoff between per-step accuracy and per-step performance is worth it when considering the overall time of the burn.

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C++
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Forks
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Avg merge
3d 15h
Merged PRs (30d)
9

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