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This work concerns the numerical simulation of the Vlasov-Poisson set of equations using semi- Lagrangian methods on Graphical Processing Units (GPU). To accomplish this goal, modifications to traditional methods had to be implemented.…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2013-01-25 M. Mehrenberger , C. Steiner , L. Marradi , N. Crouseilles , E. Sonnendrucker , B. Afeyan

Linear Programming (LP) is a foundational optimization technique with widespread applications in finance, energy trading, and supply chain logistics. However, traditional Central Processing Unit (CPU)-based LP solvers often struggle to meet…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-08-26 Xiyan Hu , Titus Parker , Connor Phillips , Yifa Yu

We present a description of the adaptive mesh refinement (AMR) implementation of the PLUTO code for solving the equations of classical and special relativistic magnetohydrodynamics (MHD and RMHD). The current release exploits, in addition…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-30 A. Mignone , C. Zanni , P. Tzeferacos , B. van Straalen , P. Colella , G. Bodo

We present a new numerical code, PLUTO, for the solution of hypersonic flows in 1, 2 and 3 spatial dimensions and different systems of coordinates. The code provides a multi-physics, multi-algorithm modular environment particularly oriented…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 A. Mignone , G. Bodo , S. Massaglia , T. Matsakos , O. Tesileanu , C. Zanni , A. Ferrari

Emerging new technologies in plasma simulations allow tracking billions of particles while computing their radiative spectra. We present a visualization of the relativistic Kelvin-Helmholtz Instability from a simulation performed with the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2014-07-01 Axel Huebl , David Pugmire , Felix Schmitt , Richard Pausch , Michael Bussmann

The implementation of a new particle module describing the physics of dust grains coupled to the gas via drag forces is the subject of this work. The proposed particle-gas hybrid scheme has been designed to work in Cartesian as well as in…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-08 A. Mignone , M. Flock , B. Vaidya

Explicit numerical computations of super-fast differentially rotating disks are subject to the time-step constraint imposed by the Courant condition. When the bulk orbital velocity largely exceeds any other wave speed the time step is…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 A. Mignone , M. Flock , M. Stute , S. M. Kolb , G. Muscianisi

We present the latest version of Pinocchio, a code that generates catalogues of DM haloes in an approximate but fast way with respect to an N-body simulation. This code version extends the computation of particle and halo displacements up…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-01-11 Emiliano Munari , Pierluigi Monaco , Emiliano Sefusatti , Emanuele Castorina , Faizan G. Mohammad , Stefano Anselmi , Stefano Borgani

Linear Programs (LPs) appear in a large number of applications and offloading them to a GPU is viable to gain performance. Existing work on offloading and solving an LP on a GPU suggests that there is performance gain generally on large…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-02-26 Amit Gurung , Rajarshi Ray

We present a numerical implementation for the solution of the relativistic radiation hydrodynamics and magnetohydrodynamics equations, designed as an independent module within the freely available code PLUTO. The radiation transfer…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-06-19 Julio David Melon Fuksman , Andrea Mignone

Many-particle continuous-time quantum walks (CTQWs) represent a resource for several tasks in quantum technology, including quantum search algorithms and universal quantum computation. In order to design and implement CTQWs in a realistic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-10-02 Enrico Piccinini , Claudia Benedetti , Ilaria Siloi , Matteo G. A. Paris , Paolo Bordone

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

A heterogeneous CPU-GPU node is getting popular in HPC clusters. We need to rethink algorithms and optimization techniques for such system depending on the relative performance of CPU vs. GPU. In this paper, we report a performance…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2012-06-07 Naohito Nakasato , Go Ogiya , Yohei Miki , Masao Mori , Ken'ichi Nomoto

The MuST package is a computational software designed for ab initio electronic structure calculations for solids. The Locally Self-consistent Multiple Scattering (LSMS) method implemented in MuST allows to perform the electronic structure…

Computational Physics · Physics 2023-09-01 Xiao Liang , Edward Hanna , Derek Simmel , Hang Liu , Yang Wang

We study parallel particle-in-cell (PIC) methods for low-temperature plasmas (LTPs), which discretize kinetic formulations that capture the time evolution of the probability density function of particles as a function of position and…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2025-08-12 James Almgren-Bell , Nader Al Awar , Dilip S Geethakrishnan , Milos Gligoric , George Biros

A 3D numerical model for the ablation of pellets and shattered pellet injection (SPI) fragments in tokamaks in the plasma disruption mitigation and fueling parameter space has been developed based on the Lagrangian particle code [R.…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2021-05-26 R. Samulyak , S. Yuan , N. Naitlho , P. B. Parks

We present LBcuda, a GPU accelerated version of LBsoft, our open-source MPI-based software for the simulation of multi-component colloidal flows. We describe the design principles, the optimization and the resulting performance as compared…

Large-scale simulations of plasmas are essential for advancing our understanding of fusion devices, space, and astrophysical systems. Particle-in-Cell (PIC) codes have demonstrated their success in simulating numerous plasma phenomena on…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-07-05 Steven W. D. Chien , Jonas Nylund , Gabriel Bengtsson , Ivy B. Peng , Artur Podobas , Stefano Markidis

Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) are now powerful and flexible systems adapted and used for other purposes than graphics calculations (General Purpose computation on GPU -- GPGPU). We present here a prototype to be integrated into…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2007-06-13 Sylvain Collange , Marc Daumas , David Defour

We present our experience of porting the code used in the wave-packet convergent-close-coupling (WP-CCC) approach to run on NVIDIA V100 and AMD MI250X GPUs. The WP-CCC approach is a method used in the field of ion-atom collision physics to…

Computational Physics · Physics 2024-03-08 I. B. Abdurakhmanov , N. W. Antonio , M. Cytowski , A. S. Kadyrov