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Modern supercomputers allow the simulation of complex phenomena with increased accuracy. Eventually, this requires finer geometric discretizations with larger numbers of mesh elements. In this context, and extrapolating to the Exascale…

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Particle-in-Cell (PIC) simulations are fundamental to plasma physics but often suffer from limited scalability due to particle-grid interaction bottlenecks and particle redistribution costs. Specifically, the particle-grid interaction…

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The objective of this article is to report the parallel implementation of the 3D molecular dynamic simulation code for laser-cluster interactions. The benchmarking of the code has been done by comparing the simulation results with some of…

Computational Physics · Physics 2015-06-16 Amol R. Holkundkar

In parallel iterative applications, computational efficiency is essential for addressing large problems. Load imbalance is one of the major performance degradation factors of parallel applications. Therefore, distributing, cleverly, and as…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-11-18 Anthony Boulmier , Franck Raynaud , Nabil Abdennadher , Bastien Chopard

High precision atomic data is indispensable for experiments involving studies of fundamental interactions, astrophysics, atomic clocks, plasma science, and others. We develop new parallel atomic structure codes and explore the difficulties…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2021-03-11 C. Cheung , M. S. Safronova , S. G. Porsev

Load balancing, operator instance collocations and horizontal scaling are critical issues in Parallel Stream Processing Engines to achieve low data processing latency, optimized cluster utilization and minimized communication cost…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2016-02-12 Kasper Grud Skat Madsen , Yongluan Zhou , Jianneng Cao

Task parallelism as employed by the OpenMP task construct, although ideal for tackling irregular problems or typical producer/consumer schemes, bears some potential for performance bottlenecks if locality of data access is important, which…

Performance · Computer Science 2009-02-12 Markus Wittmann , Georg Hager

Calculating interactions or correlations between pairs of particles is typically the most time-consuming task in particle simulation or correlation analysis. Straightforward implementations using a double loop over particle pairs have…

Computational Physics · Physics 2015-06-16 Szilárd Páll , Berk Hess

In parallel computing, a problem is divided into a set of smaller tasks that are distributed across multiple processing elements. Balancing the load of the processing elements is key to achieving good performance and scalability. If the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2013-08-02 Omer Demirel , Ivo F. Sbalzarini

Computational chemistry allows researchers to experiment in sillico: by running a computer simulations of a biological or chemical processes of interest. Molecular dynamics with molecular mechanics model of interactions simulates N-body…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2014-03-03 Jana Pazúriková

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

The simulation of large ensembles of particles is usually parallelized by partitioning the domain spatially and using message passing to communicate between the processes handling neighboring subdomains. The particles are represented as…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-08-03 Sebastian Eibl , Ulrich Rüde

A fundamental task in particle-in-cell (PIC) simulations of plasma physics is solving for charged particle motion in electromagnetic fields. This problem is especially challenging when the plasma is strongly magnetized due to numerical…

Computational Physics · Physics 2026-01-01 Tri P. Nguyen , Ilon Joseph , Mayya Tokman

A second-order accurate divergence-conserving hybrid particle-in-cell code Maximus has been developed for microscopic modeling of collisionless plasmas. The main specifics of the code include a constrained transport algorithm for exact…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-03-11 J. A. Kropotina , A. M. Bykov , A. M. Krassilchtchikov , K. P. Levenfish

High-intensity laser plasma interactions create complex computational problems because they involve both fluid and kinetic regimes, which need models that maintain physical precision while keeping computational speed. The research…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-10-14 Sadra Saremi , Amirhossein Ahmadkhan Kordbacheh

Numerical studies of shock waves in large scale systems via kinetic simulations with millions of particles are too computationally demanding to be processed in serial. In this work we focus on optimizing the parallel performance of a…

Computational Physics · Physics 2015-07-10 Jim Howell , Wolfgang Bauer , Dirk Colbry , Rodney Pickett , Alec Staber , Irina Sagert , Terrance Strother

While in recent years, gyrokinetic simulations have become the workhorse for theoretical turbulence and transport studies in the plasma core, their application to the edge and scrape-off layer (SOL) region presents significant challenges.…

Laboratory plasmas in open magnetic geometries can be found in many different applications such as (1) Scrape-Of-Layer (SOL) and divertor regions in toroidal confinement fusion devices (\approx1-10^2\hspace{1mm}\mathrm{eV}), (2) linear…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2022-02-09 Atul Kumar , J. F. Caneses Marin

With the approach of exascale computing era, particle-based models are becoming the focus of research due to their excellent scalability. We present a new code, Slurm, which implements the classic particle-in-cell algorithm for modeling…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-12-05 Vyacheslav Olshevsky , Fabio Bacchini , Stefaan Poedts , Giovanni Lapenta

Particle-in-cell methods with stochastic collision models are commonly used to simulate collisional plasma dynamics, with applications ranging from hypersonic flight to semiconductor manufacturing. Code verification of such methods is…

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