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Processing-in-memory (PIM) is a promising computing paradigm to tackle the "memory wall" challenge. However, PIM system-level benefits over traditional von Neumann architecture can be reduced when the memory array cannot fully store all the…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-03-03 Peilin Chen , Xiaoxuan Yang

Multiphase compressible flows are often characterized by a broad range of space and time scales. Thus entailing large grids and small time steps, simulations of these flows on CPU-based clusters can thus take several wall-clock days.…

The rapid development of AI highlights the pressing need for sustainable energy, a critical global challenge for decades. Nuclear fusion, generally seen as an ultimate solution, has been the focus of intensive research for nearly a century,…

With high-performance computing systems now running at exascale, optimizing power-scaling management and resource utilization has become more critical than ever. This paper explores runtime power-capping optimizations that leverage…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-06-26 Maria Patrou , Thomas Wang , Wael Elwasif , Markus Eisenbach , Ross Miller , William Godoy , Oscar Hernandez

Processing-In-Memory (PIM) is a novel approach that augments existing DRAM memory chips with lightweight logic. By allowing to offload computations to the PIM system, this architecture allows for circumventing the data-bottleneck problem…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-01-18 André Lopes , Daniel Castro , Paolo Romano

Recent development of structure-preserving geometric particle-in-cell (PIC) algorithms for Vlasov-Maxwell systems is summarized. With the arriving of 100 petaflop and exaflop computing power, it is now possible to carry out direct…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2019-06-26 Jianyuan Xiao , Hong Qin , Jian Liu

This paper presents a Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) acceleration method of an iterative scheme for gas-kinetic model equations. Unlike the previous GPU parallelization of explicit kinetic schemes, this work features a fast converging…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-01-08 Lianhua Zhu , Peng Wang , Songze Chen , Zhaoli Guo , Yonghao Zhang

We benchmark and analyze the error of energy conservation (EC) scheme for Particle in cell/Monte-Carlo Couple (PIC/MCC) algorithms by a radio frequency discharging simulation. The plasma heating behaviors and electron distributing functions…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2014-01-30 Wang Hong-Yu , Jiang Wei , Sun Peng , Kong Ling-Bao

In-memory database query processing frequently involves substantial data transfers between the CPU and memory, leading to inefficiencies due to Von Neumann bottleneck. Processing-in-Memory (PIM) architectures offer a viable solution to…

Hybrid-VPIC is an extension of the open-source high-performance particle-in-cell (PIC) code VPIC incorporating hybrid kinetic ion/fluid electron solvers. This paper describes the models that are available in the code and gives an overview…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2023-06-14 Ari Le , Adam Stanier , Lin Yin , Blake Wetherton , Brett Keenan , Brian Albright

Processing-in-memory (PIM) architectures bring computation closer to data, reducing the processor-memory transfer bottleneck in traditional processor-centric designs. Novel hardware solutions, such as UPMEM's in-memory processing…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2026-04-10 Peterson Yuhala , Mpoki Mwaisela , Pascal Felber , Valerio Schiavoni

Particle-in-Cell (PIC) methods employ particle representations of unknown fields, but also employ continuum fields for other parts of the problem. Thus projection between particle and continuum bases is required. Moreover, we often need to…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2023-06-22 Joseph V. Pusztay , Matthew G. Knepley , Mark F. Adams

The modern trend in High-Performance Computing (HPC) involves the use of accelerators such as Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) alongside Central Processing Units (CPUs) to speed up numerical operations in various applications. Leading…

Mathematical Software · Computer Science 2025-07-25 Giulio Malenza , Giovanni Stabile , Filippo Spiga , Robert Birke , Marco Aldinucci

exa-AMD is a Python-based application designed to accelerate the discovery and design of functional materials by integrating AI/ML tools, materials databases, and quantum mechanical calculations into scalable, high-performance workflows.…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-06-27 Maxim Moraru , Weiyi Xia , Zhuo Ye , Feng Zhang , Yongxin Yao , Ying Wai Li , Cai-Zhuang Wang

GPUs are the heart of the latest generations of supercomputers. We efficiently accelerate a compressible multiphase flow solver via OpenACC on NVIDIA and AMD Instinct GPUs. Optimization is accomplished by specifying the directive clauses…

In-DRAM Processing-In-Memory (DRAM-PIM) has emerged as a promising approach to accelerate memory-intensive workloads by mitigating data transfer overhead between DRAM and the host processor. Bit-serial DRAM-PIM architectures, further…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-12-11 Siyuan Ma , Jiajun Hu , Jeeho Ryoo , Aman Arora , Lizy Kurian John

Numerical solutions to the Vlasov-Poisson system of equations have important applications to both plasma physics and cosmology. In this paper, we present a new Particle-in-Cell (PIC) method for solving this system that is 4th-order accurate…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-02-03 Andrew Myers , Phillip Colella , Brian Van Straalen

We present the parallel particle-in-cell (PIC) code Apar-T and, more importantly, address the fundamental question of the relations between the PIC model, the Vlasov-Maxwell theory, and real plasmas. First, we present four validation tests:…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-11-12 Mickaël Melzani , Christophe Winisdoerffer , Rolf Walder , Doris Folini , Jean M. Favre , Stefan Krastanov , Peter Messmer

Acceleration processes that occur in astrophysical plasmas produce cosmic rays that are observed on Earth. To study particle acceleration, fully-kinetic particle-in-cell (PIC) simulations are often used as they can unveil the microphysics…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-08-31 Gabriel Torralba Paz , Artem Bohdan , Jacek Niemiec

Explicit electromagnetic Particle-In-Cell (PIC) codes are typically limited by the Courant- Friedrichs-Lewy (CFL) condition, which implies that the timestep multiplied by the speed of light must be smaller than the smallest cell size. In…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2021-12-08 Olga Shapoval , Remi Lehe , Maxence Thévenet , Edoardo Zoni , Yinjian Zhao , Jean-Luc Vay