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iPIC3D is a widely used massively parallel Particle-in-Cell code for the simulation of space plasmas. However, its current implementation does not support execution on multiple GPUs. In this paper, we describe the porting of iPIC3D particle…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-06-27 Chaitanya Prasad Sishtla , Steven W. D. Chien , Vyacheslav Olshevsky , Erwin Laure , Stefano Markidis

We discuss a detailed weak scaling analysis of GEM, a 3D MPI-parallelised gyrofluid code used in theoretical plasma physics at the Max Planck Institute of Plasma Physics, IPP at Garching b. M\"unchen, Germany. Within a PRACE Preparatory…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2014-02-13 Bruce D. Scott , Volker Weinberg , Olivier Hoenen , Anupam Karmakar , Luis Fazendeiro

Three dimensional particle-in-cell laser-plasma simulation is an important area of computational physics. Solving state-of-the-art problems requires large-scale simulation on a supercomputer using specialized codes. A growing demand in…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2016-08-04 Igor Surmin , Sergey Bastrakov , Zakhar Matveev , Evgeny Efimenko , Arkady Gonoskov , Iosif Meyerov

The Particle-in-Cell (PIC) simulation has been a widely used method for studying plasma physics. However, fully three-dimensional PIC simulations always require huge computational resources. For problems with near azimuthal symmetry, recent…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-02-09 Jianzhao Wang , Weiming An , Rong Tang , Weiyu Meng , Jiayong Zhong

Recently, task-based programming models have emerged as a prominent alternative among shared-memory parallel programming paradigms. Inherently asynchronous, these models provide native support for dynamic load balancing and incorporate data…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-09-01 Nicolas Guidotti , Pedro Ceyrat , João Barreto , José Monteiro , Rodrigo Rodrigues , Ricardo Fonseca , Xavier Martorell , Antonio J. Peña

Cosmological simulations of structures and galaxies formations have played a fundamental role in the study of the origin, formation and evolution of the Universe. These studies improved enormously with the use of supercomputers and parallel…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-11 U. Becciani , V. Antonuccio , M. Comparato

Applications to process seismic data employ scalable parallel systems to produce timely results. To fully exploit emerging processor architectures, application will need to employ threaded parallelism within a node and message passing…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2016-03-15 Sri Raj Paul , John Mellor-Crummey , Mauricio Araya-Polo , Detlef Hohl

Atomic-scale simulations have progressed tremendously over the past decade, largely due to the availability of machine-learning interatomic potentials. These potentials combine the accuracy of electronic structure calculations with the…

We discuss the design and implementation of HYDRA_OMP a parallel implementation of the Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics-Adaptive P3M (SPH-AP3M) code HYDRA. The code is designed primarily for conducting cosmological hydrodynamic simulations…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 R. J. Thacker , H. M. P. Couchman

Optimizing high-performance power electronic equipment, such as power converters, requires multiscale simulations that incorporate the physics of power semiconductor devices and the dynamics of other circuit components, especially in…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-20 Qingyuan Shi , Chijie Zhuang , Jiapeng Liu , Bo Lin , Xiyu Peng , Dan Wu , Zhicheng Liu , Rong Zeng

The spherical harmonic transform is a powerful tool in the analysis of spherical data sets, such as the cosmic microwave background data. In this work, we present a new scheme for the spherical harmonic transforms that supports both CPU and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-11-18 Chi Tian , Siyu Li , Hao Liu

This paper presents a comprehensive comparison of three dominant parallel programming models in High Performance Computing (HPC): Message Passing Interface (MPI), Open Multi-Processing (OpenMP), and Compute Unified Device Architecture…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-06-19 Nizar ALHafez , Ahmad Kurdi

The numerical simulation of turbulence and flows in almost ideal, large-Reynolds-number astrophysical plasmas motivates the implementation of almost conservative MHD computer codes. They should efficiently calculate, use highly parallelized…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-07-29 J. Skála , F. Baruffa , J. Büchner , M. Rampp

This study addresses the challenge of simulating realistic particle systems by proposing a novel particle decomposition scheme that improves the parallel performance of surface resolved particle simulations. Realistic particle systems often…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-03-21 J. E. Marquardt , N. Hafen , M. J. Krause

We present our recent code modernizations of the of the ab initio molecular dynamics program CPMD (www.cpmd.org) with a special focus on the ultra-soft pseudopotential (USPP) code path. Following the internal instrumentation of CPMD, all…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-03-20 Tobias Klöffel , Gerald Mathias , Bernd Meyer

The trend towards highly parallel multi-processing is ubiquitous in all modern computer architectures, ranging from handheld devices to large-scale HPC systems; yet many applications are struggling to fully utilise the multiple levels of…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2013-07-19 Michael Lange , Gerard Gorman , Michele Weiland , Lawrence Mitchell , Xiaohu Guo , James Southern

We present a new software, HYPPO, that enables the automatic tuning of hyperparameters of various deep learning (DL) models. Unlike other hyperparameter optimization (HPO) methods, HYPPO uses adaptive surrogate models and directly accounts…

VPIC is a general purpose Particle-in-Cell simulation code for modeling plasma phenomena such as magnetic reconnection, fusion, solar weather, and laser-plasma interaction in three dimensions using large numbers of particles. VPIC's…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-06-16 Robert Bird , Nigel Tan , Scott V. Luedtke , Stephen Lien Harrell , Michela Taufer , Brian Albright

Despite initiatives to improve the quality of scientific codes, there still is a large presence of legacy code. Such code often needs to implement a lot of functionality under time constrains, sacrificing quality. Additionally, quality is…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2018-10-17 Markus Höhnerbach , Paolo Bientinesi

Parallel computing has turned out to be the enabling technology to solve complex physical systems. However, the transition from shared memory, vector computers to massively parallel, distributed memory systems and, recently, to hybrid…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 P. Hoeflich