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Computer simulations of plasmas are relevant nowadays, because it helps us understand physical processes taking place in the sun and other stellar objects. We developed a program called PCell which is intended for displaying the evolution…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-01-06 Rodrigo Carboni , Francisco Frutos-Alfaro

Entity is a new-generation, fully open-source particle-in-cell (PIC) code developed to overcome key limitations in astrophysical plasma modeling, particularly the extreme separation of scales and the performance challenges associated with…

Advances in quantum simulator technology is increasingly required because research on quantum algorithms is becoming more sophisticated and complex. State vector simulation utilizes CPU and memory resources in computing nodes exponentially…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-09-04 Mikio Morita , Yoshinori Tomita , Junpei Koyama , Koichi Kimura

Vlasiator is a space plasma simulation code which models near-Earth ion-kinetic dynamics in three spatial and three velocity dimensions. It is highly parallelized, modeling the Vlasov equation directly through the distribution function,…

Probabilistic integral circuits (PICs) have been recently introduced as probabilistic models enjoying the key ingredient behind expressive generative models: continuous latent variables (LVs). PICs are symbolic computational graphs defining…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-06 Gennaro Gala , Cassio de Campos , Antonio Vergari , Erik Quaeghebeur

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

The Liquid Argon Time Projection Chamber (LArTPC) technology plays an essential role in many current and future neutrino experiments. Accurate and fast simulation is critical to developing efficient analysis algorithms and precise physics…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-09-08 Haiwang Yu , Zhihua Dong , Kyle Knoepfel , Meifeng Lin , Brett Viren , Kwangmin Yu

Mastering computational architectures is essential for developing fast and power-efficient programs. Our advanced simulator empowers both IT students and professionals to grasp the fundamentals of superscalar RISC-V processors, HW/SW…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-11-13 Jiri Jaros , Michal Majer , Jakub Horky , Jan Vavra

First-principles particle-in-cell (PIC) simulation is a powerful tool for understanding plasma behavior, but this power often comes at great computational expense. Artificially reducing the ion/electron mass ratio is a time-honored practice…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2022-01-14 Gregory R. Werner , Scott Robertson , Thomas G. Jenkins , Andrew M. Chap , John R. Cary

Particle-in-cell (PIC) simulations are essential for studying kinetic plasma processes, but they often suffer from statistical noise, especially in plasmas with fast flows. We have also found that the typical central difference scheme used…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-06-16 Yuxi Chen , Hongyang Zhou , Gabor Toth

Scientific computing in the exascale era demands increased computational power to solve complex problems across various domains. With the rise of heterogeneous computing architectures the need for vendor-agnostic, performance portability…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-11-05 Johansell Villalobos , Josef Ruzicka , Silvio Rizzi

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

The recently developed energy conserving semi-implicit method (ECsim) for PIC simulation is applied to multiple scale problems where the electron-scale physics needs to be only partially retained and the interest is on the macroscopic or…

Computational Physics · Physics 2017-05-24 Giovanni Lapenta , Diego Gonzalez-Herrero , Elisabetta Boella

Understanding plasma instabilities is essential for achieving sustainable fusion energy, with large-scale plasma simulations playing a crucial role in both the design and development of next-generation fusion energy devices and the…

The complexity of combustion simulations demands the latest high-performance computing tools to accelerate its time-to-solution results. A current trend on HPC systems is the utilization of CPUs with SIMD or vector extensions to exploit…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-10-24 Fabio Banchelli , Guillermo Oyarzun , Marta Garcia-Gasulla , Filippo Mantovani , Ambrus Both , Guillaume Houzeaux , Daniel Mira

Resolving the most fundamental questions in cosmology requires simulations that match the scale, fidelity, and physical complexity demanded by next-generation sky surveys. To achieve the realism needed for this critical scientific…

We propose a simulation-based approach for performance modeling of parallel applications on high-performance computing platforms. Our approach enables full-system performance modeling: (1) the hardware platform is represented by an abstract…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-11-06 Gen Xu , Huda Ibeid , Xin Jiang , Vjekoslav Svilan , Zhaojuan Bian

Electron self-injection and acceleration until dephasing in the blowout regime is studied for a set of initial conditions typical of recent experiments with 100 terawatt-class lasers. Two different approaches to computationally efficient,…

We present in this work the implementation of the Energy Conserving Semi-Implicit Method in a parallel code called ECsim. This new code is a three-dimensional, fully electromagnetic particle in cell (PIC) code. It is written in C/C++ and…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-07-04 Diego Gonzalez-Herrero , Elisabetta Boella , Giovanni Lapenta

We developed a portable code for dissipative particle dynamics (DPD) simulations. This Fortran program named CAMUS has a couple of notable features. One is the omission of constructing the so-called neighboring particles list, providing a…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2018-07-03 Hideo Doi , Koji Okuwaki , Takamitsu Naito , Sona Saitou , Yuji Mochizuki