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Large-scale HPC simulations of plasma dynamics in fusion devices require efficient parallel I/O to avoid slowing down the simulation and to enable the post-processing of critical information. Such complex simulations lacking parallel I/O…

In this dissertation, a fully object-oriented, fully relativistic, multi-dimensional Particle-In-Cell code was developed and applied to answer key questions in plasma-based accelerator research. The simulations increase the understanding of…

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Matrix multiplication is a foundational operation in scientific computing and machine learning, yet its computational complexity makes it a significant bottleneck for large-scale applications. The shift to parallel architectures, primarily…

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There are now more Particle-in-Cell (PIC) codes than ever before that researchers use to simulate intense laser-plasma interactions. To date, there have been relatively few direct comparisons of these codes in the literature, especially for…

In recent decades, High Performance Computing (HPC) has undergone significant enhancements, particularly in the realm of hardware platforms, aimed at delivering increased processing power while keeping power consumption within reasonable…

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In the wake of the intense effort made for the experimental CILEX project, numerical simulation cam- paigns have been carried out in order to finalize the design of the facility and to identify optimal laser and plasma parameters. These…

Computational Physics · Physics 2016-04-20 Arnaud Beck , Jacob Trier Frederiksen , Julien Dérouillat

Our fully kinetic, implicit Particle-in-Cell (PIC) simulations of global magnetospheres on up to 32,768 of El Capitan's AMD Instinct MI300A Accelerated Processing Units (APUs) represent an unprecedented computational capability that…

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We present an efficient open-source implementation of the multiparticle collision dynamics (MPCD) algorithm that scales to run on hundreds of graphics processing units (GPUs). We especially focus on optimizations for modern GPU…

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One of the current challenges in physically-based simulations, and, more specifically, fluid simulations, is to produce visually appealing results at interactive rates, capable of being used in multiple forms of media. In recent times, a…

Graphics · Computer Science 2024-04-17 Pedro Centeno , João Madeiras Pereira

Particle-in-cell codes are the most widely used simulation tools for kinetic studies of ultra-intense laser-plasma interactions. Using the motion of a single electron in a plane electromagnetic wave as a benchmark problem, we show…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2021-04-07 Kavin Tangtartharakul , Guangye Chen , Alexey Arefiev

This paper focuses on the parallel implementation of a direct $N$-body method~(particle-particle algorithm) and the application of multiple GPUs for galactic dynamics simulations. Application of a hybrid OpenMP-CUDA technology is considered…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-03-06 S. S. Khrapov , S. A. Khoperskov , A. V. Khoperskov

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 simulation of the two-dimensional Ising model is used as a benchmark to show the computational capabilities of Graphic Processing Units (GPUs). The rich programming environment now available on GPUs and flexible hardware capabilities…

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State-of-the-art numerical simulations of laser plasma by means of the Particle-in-Cell method are often extremely computationally intensive. Therefore there is a growing need for development of approaches for efficient utilization of…

Molecular dynamics facilitates the simulation of a complex system to be analyzed at molecular and atomic levels. Simulations can last a long period of time, even months. Due to this cause the graphics processing units (GPUs) and multi-core…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-02-02 Iuliana Marin , Nicolae Goga , Maria Goga

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

Parallel computing is a standard approach to achieving high-performance computing (HPC). Three commonly used methods to implement parallel computing include: 1) applying multithreading technology on single-core or multi-core CPUs; 2)…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-09-18 Xinyao Yi

Basic principles of particle-in-cell (PIC ) codes with the main application for plasma-based acceleration are discussed. The ab initio full electromagnetic relativistic PIC codes provide the most reliable description of plasmas. Their…

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Graphics processing units (GPU) had evolved from a specialized hardware capable to render high quality graphics in games to a commodity hardware for effective processing blocks of data in a parallel schema. This evolution is particularly…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2012-03-26 Luis Cabellos

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…

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