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Particle-in-Cell (PIC) simulations spend most of their execution time on particle--grid interactions, where fine-grained atomic updates become a major bottleneck on traditional many-core CPUs. Recent CPU architectures integrate specialized…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-01-14 Yizhuo Rao , Xingjian Cui , Jiabin Xie , Shangzhi Pang , Guangnan Feng , Jinhui Wei , Zhiguang Chen , Yutong Lu

For a deep learning model, efficient execution of its computation graph is key to achieving high performance. Previous work has focused on improving the performance for individual nodes of the computation graph, while ignoring the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-07-26 Linpeng Tang , Yida Wang , Theodore L. Willke , Kai Li

High-fidelity modeling of plasma-based acceleration (PBA) requires the use of 3D fully nonlinear and kinetic descriptions based on the particle-in-cell (PIC) method. Three-dimensional PIC algorithms based on the quasi-static approximation…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2022-09-28 Fei Li , Weiming An , Frank S. Tsung , Viktor K. Decyk , Warren B. Mori

We propose a spectral Particle-In-Cell (PIC) algorithm that is based on the combination of a Hankel transform and a Fourier transform. For physical problems that have close-to-cylindrical symmetry, this algorithm can be much faster than…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2016-05-04 Remi Lehe , Manuel Kirchen , Igor A. Andriyash , Brendan B. Godfrey , Jean-Luc Vay

This paper presents a novel 3-D full electromagnetic particle-in-cell (PIC) code called JefiPIC, which uses Jefimenko's equations as the electromagnetic (EM) field solver through a full-space integration method. Leveraging the power of…

Computational Physics · Physics 2023-12-27 Jiannan Chen , Jun-Jie Zhang , Xueming Li , Hai-Liang Qiao , Yongtao Zhao

Quantum computers may one day enable the efficient simulation of strongly coupled plasmas that lie beyond the reach of classical computation in regimes where quantum effects are important and the scale separation is large. In this article,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-03 Bhuvanesh Sundar , Bram Evert , Vasily Geyko , Andrew Patterson , Ilon Joseph , Yuan Shi

Though wakefield acceleration in crystal channels has been previously proposed, x-ray wakefield acceleration has only recently become a realistic possibility since the invention of the single-cycled optical laser compression technique. We…

Path integral Monte Carlo (PIMC) and path integral molecular dynamics (PIMD) provide the golden standard for the ab initio simulations of identical particles. In this work, we achieved significant GPU acceleration based on PIMD, which is…

Computational Physics · Physics 2026-03-31 Yunuo Xiong

We present a hybrid quantum-classical electrostatic Particle-in-Cell (PIC) method, where the electrostatic field Poisson solver is implemented on a quantum computer simulator using a hybrid classical-quantum Neural Network (HNN) using…

Kinetic plasma processes, such as magnetic reconnection, collisionless shocks, and turbulence, are fundamental to the dynamics of astrophysical and laboratory plasmas. Simulating these processes often requires particle-in-cell (PIC)…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-06-11 S. R. Totorica , K. V. Lezhnin , W. Fox

We present a new scalable algorithm for short-range molecular dynamics simulations on distributed memory MIMD multicomputer based on a message-passing multi-cell approach. We have implemented the algorithm on the Connection Machine 5 (CM-5)…

comp-gas · Physics 2008-02-03 D. M. Beazley , P. S. Lomdahl

With the great development of parallel computing techniques, the particle-particle (PP) model has been successfully applied in a number of plasma applications. Comparing to particle-mesh (PM) models, for example the widely used…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-06-10 Yanan Zhang , Xiaochun Ma , Hui Liu , Yinjian Zhao

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

We present computational performance comparisons of gas-solid simulations performed on current CPU and GPU architectures using MFiX Exa, a CFD-DEM solver that leverages hybrid CPU+GPU parallelism. A representative fluidized bed simulation…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-08-20 Shandong Lao , Aaron Holt , Deepthi Vaidhynathan , Hariswaran Sitaraman , Christine M. Hrenya , Thomas Hauser

This article describes algorithms for the hybrid parallelization and SIMD vectorization of molecular dynamics simulations with short-range forces. The parallelization method combines domain decomposition with a thread-based parallelization…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-09-13 Chris M. Mangiardi , Ralf Meyer

Due to decelerating gains in single-core CPU performance, computationally expensive simulations are increasingly executed on highly parallel hardware platforms. Agent-based simulations, where simulated entities act with a certain degree of…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2018-07-04 Jiajian Xiao , Philipp Andelfinger , David Eckhoff , Wentong Cai , Alois Knoll

We present a novel, GPU-optimized algorithm for particle-mesh interactions in grid-based hydrodynamics simulations, designed for massively parallel architectures. This approach overcomes the inefficiency of particle neighbour searches or…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-23 Chong-Chong He , Benjamin D. Wibking , Aditi Vijayan , Mark R. Krumholz , Pak Shing Li

The paper presents investigations on the implementation and performance of the finite element numerical integration algorithm for first order approximations and three processor architectures, popular in scientific computing, classical CPU,…

Mathematical Software · Computer Science 2016-05-25 Krzysztof Banaś , Filip Krużel , Jan Bielański

A parallel 2D+1 split-step Fourier method with Crank-Nicholson scheme running on multi-core shared memory architectures is developed to study the propagation of ultra-short high-intensity laser pulses in air. The parallel method achieves a…

Optics · Physics 2015-07-23 Cunliang Ma , Wenbin Lin

We describe a program for the parallel implementation of multiple runs of XSTAR, a photoionization code that is used to predict the physical properties of an ionized gas from its emission and/or absorption lines. The parallelization…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-01-03 Ashkbiz Danehkar , Michael A. Nowak , Julia C. Lee , Randall K. Smith