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While the particle-in-cell (PIC) method is quite mature, verification and validation of both newly developed methods and individual codes has largely focused on an idiosyncratic choice of a few test cases. Many of these test cases involve…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-05-19 S. O'Connor , Z. D. Crawford , J. Verboncoeur , J. Lugisland , B. Shanker

A surrogate model for particle-in-cell plasma simulations based on a graph neural network is presented. The graph is constructed in such a way as to enable the representation of electromagnetic fields on a fixed spatial grid. The model is…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-03-04 Marin Mlinarević , George K. Holt , Adriano Agnello

Most parallel applications suffer from load imbalance, a crucial performance degradation factor. In particle simulations, this is mainly due to the migration of particles between processing elements, which eventually gather unevenly and…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-08-26 Anthony Boulmier , Nabil Abdennadher , Bastien Chopard

The code SCREAM -- SuperConducting RElativistic particle Accelerator siMulation was significantly modified and improved. Some misprints in the formulae used have been fixed and a more realistic expression for the vector-sum introduced. The…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2012-09-21 Yu. Eidelman , S. Nagaitsev , N. Solyak

This study explores the use of INT8-based emulation for accelerating traditional FP64-based HPC workloads on modern GPU architectures. Through SCILIB-Accel automatic BLAS offload tool for cache-coherent Unified Memory Architecture, we…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Hang Liu , Junjie Li , Yinzhi Wang , Niraj K. Nepal , Yang Wang

Cosmic-ray acceleration processes in astrophysical plasmas are often investigated with fully-kinetic or hybrid kinetic numerical simulations, which enable us to describe a detailed microphysics of particle energization mechanisms. Tracing…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-02-12 Gabriel Torralba Paz , Artem Bohdan , Jacek Niemiec

Modern graphics processing units (GPUs) lead to a major increase in the performance of the computation of astrophysical simulations. Owing to the different nature of GPU architecture compared to traditional central processing units (CPUs)…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2016-04-13 Christoph M. Schäfer , Sven Riecker , Thomas I. Maindl , Roland Speith , Samuel Scherrer , Wilhelm Kley

The growing demand for high-speed data, quality of service (QoS) assurance and energy efficiency has triggered the evolution of 4G LTE-A networks to 5G and beyond. Interference is still a major performance bottleneck. This paper studies the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Ajay Thampi , Soung Chang Liew , Simon Armour , Zhong Fan , Lizhao You , Dritan Kaleshi

We present a GPU-accelerated version of the real-space SPARC electronic structure code for performing hybrid functional calculations in generalized Kohn-Sham density functional theory. In particular, we develop a batch variant of the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-01-29 Xin Jing , Abhiraj Sharma , John E. Pask , Phanish Suryanarayana

A parallel, relativistic, three-dimensional particle-in-cell code SPACE has been developed for the simulation of electromagnetic fields, relativistic particle beams, and plasmas. In addition to the standard second-order Particle-in-Cell…

Computational Physics · Physics 2022-05-25 Kwangmin Yu , Prabhat Kumar , Shaohua Yuan , Aiqi Cheng , Roman Samulyak

Author developed the parallel fully kinetic particle-in-cell (PIC) code JPIC based on updated and advanced algorithms (e.g. numerical-dispersion-free electromagnetic field solver) for simulating laser plasma interactions. Basic technical…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2011-04-19 Hui-Chun Wu

Optimizing iPIC3D, an implicit Particle-in-Cell (PIC) code, for large-scale 3D plasma simulations is crucial for space and astrophysical applications. This work focuses on characterizing iPIC3D's communication efficiency through strategic…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-08-06 Jeremy J. Williams , Daniel Medeiros , Ivy B. Peng , Stefano Markidis

Hybrid computational architectures based on the joint power of Central Processing Units and Graphic Processing Units (GPUs) are becoming popular and powerful hardware tools for a wide range of simulations in biology, chemistry, engineering,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Roberto Capuzzo-Dolcetta , Mario Spera

Kinetic Particle In Cell (PIC) methods can extend greatly their range of applicability if implicit time differencing and spatial adaption are used to address the wide range of time and length scales typical of plasmas. For implicit…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2008-06-05 Giovanni Lapenta

Recent development of structure-preserving geometric particle-in-cell (PIC) algorithms for Vlasov-Maxwell systems is summarized. With the arriving of 100 petaflop and exaflop computing power, it is now possible to carry out direct…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2019-06-26 Jianyuan Xiao , Hong Qin , Jian Liu

With the use of belief propagation (BP) decoding algorithm, low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes can achieve near-Shannon limit performance. In order to evaluate the error performance of LDPC codes, simulators running on CPUs are commonly…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-07-30 Yue Zhao , Francis C. M. Lau

Splotch is a rendering algorithm for exploration and visual discovery in particle-based datasets coming from astronomical observations or numerical simulations. The strengths of the approach are production of high quality imagery and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-09-23 Marzia Rivi , Claudio Gheller , Tim Dykes , Mel Krokos , Klaus Dolag

Currently, the most energy-efficient hardware platforms for floating point-intensive calculations (also known as High Performance Computing, or HPC) are graphical processing units (GPUs). However, porting existing scientific codes to GPUs…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-03-28 Michele Martone , Julia Lawall

Earth system models (ESM) demand significant hardware resources and energy consumption to solve atmospheric chemistry processes. Recent studies have shown improved performance from running these models on GPU accelerators. Nonetheless,…

The ever increasing demands placed upon machine performance have resulted in the need for more comprehensive particle accelerator modeling. Computer simulations are key to the success of particle accelerators. Many aspects of particle…