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MiMiC is a framework for performing multiscale simulations in which loosely coupled external programs describe individual subsystems at different resolutions and levels of theory. To make it highly efficient and flexible, we adopt an…

We present the extension of the Tinker-HP package (Lagard\`ere et al., Chem. Sci., 2018,9, 956-972) to the use of Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) cards to accelerate molecular dynamics simulations using polarizable many-body force fields.…

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

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

Simulation of atomic resolution image formation in scanning transmission electron microscopy can require significant computation times using traditional methods. A recently developed method, termed plane-wave reciprocal-space interpolated…

Computational Physics · Physics 2017-07-07 Alan Pryor , Colin Ophus , Jianwei Miao

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

The field of plasma physics heavily relies on simulations to model various phenomena, such as instabilities, turbulence, and nonlinear behaviors that would otherwise be difficult to study from a purely theoretical approach. Simulations are…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2026-02-05 Giorgio Daneri

In this article, we present an in-depth verification of the generalized electrostatic reduced-order particle-in-cell (PIC) scheme in a cross electric and magnetic field configuration representative of a radial-azimuthal section of a Hall…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2022-12-01 Farbod Faraji , Maryam Reza , Aaron Knoll

We present an algorithm to simulate the many-body depletion interaction between anisotropic colloids in an implicit way, integrating out the degrees of freedom of the depletants, which we treat as an ideal gas. Because the depletant…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-08-31 Jens Glaser , Andrew S. Karas , Sharon C. Glotzer

Particle-Mesh (PM) codes are still very useful tools for testing predictions of cosmological models in cases when extra high resolution is not very important. We release for public use a cosmological PM N-body code. We provide a complete…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Anatoly Klypin , Jon Holtzman

This paper describes a massively parallel code for a state-of-the art thermal lattice- Boltzmann method. Our code has been carefully optimized for performance on one GPU and to have a good scaling behavior extending to a large number of…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-03-02 E. Calore , A. Gabbana , J. Kraus , E. Pellegrini , S. F. Schifano , R. Tripiccione

Applications that exploit the architectural details of high-performance computing (HPC) systems have become increasingly invaluable in academia and industry over the past two decades. The most important hardware development of the last…

Mathematical Software · Computer Science 2020-05-15 Daniel J. Magee , Anthony S. Walker , Kyle E. Niemeyer

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

We compare different Poisson solvers within the context of an electrostatic Vlasov-Poisson system. These schemes are implemented as part of the IPPL (Independent Parallel Particle Layer) library (Frey et al., 2024), which provides…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Sonali Mayani , Paul Fischill , Sriramkrishnan Muralikrishnan , Andreas Adelmann

Quasistatic particle-in-cell (PIC) codes are increasingly employed to study laser or plasma wakefield accelerators. By decoupling the slow dynamics of the driver (a laser or ultrarelativistic particle beam) from the fast plasma response,…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-06-24 Q. Labro , X. Davoine , L. Gremillet , L. Bergé

We extend the recently-developed explicit, energy-conserving particle-in-cell (PIC) scheme of [1] to the relativistic Vlasov-Maxwell system. As in the non-relativistic case, the method is built on an optimization problem that is…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2026-05-19 Lee Ricketson , Jingwei Hu

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

The Particle-In-Cell (PIC) method has been developed by Oscar Buneman, Charles Birdsall, Roger W. Hockney, and John Dawson in the 1950s and, with the advances of computing power, has been further developed for several fields such as…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-07-20 Kenichi Nishikawa , Ioana Dutan , Christoph Koehn , Yosuke Mizuno

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

Upon inclusion of collisions, the speed-limited particle-in-cell (SLPIC) simulation method successfully computed the Paschen curve for argon. The simulations modelled an electron cascade across an argon-filled capacitor, including…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2021-07-28 Joseph G. Theis , Gregory R. Werner , Thomas G. Jenkins , John R. Cary