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- Markidis, Stefano, et al.
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Idle waves in high-performance computing
- 2015
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Ingår i: Physical Review E. Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics. - 1539-3755 .- 1550-2376. ; 91:1, s. 013306-
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The vast majority of parallel scientific applications distributes computation among processes that are in a busy state when computing and in an idle state when waiting for information from other processes. We identify the propagation of idle waves through processes in scientific applications with a local information exchange between the two processes. Idle waves are nondispersive and have a phase velocity inversely proportional to the average busy time. The physical mechanism enabling the propagation of idle waves is the local synchronization between two processes due to remote data dependency. This study provides a description of the large number of processes in parallel scientific applications as a continuous medium. This work also is a step towards an understanding of how localized idle periods can affect remote processes, leading to the degradation of global performance in parallel scientific applications.
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- Peng, Bo, et al.
(författare)
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The formation of a magnetosphere with implicit Particle-in-Cell simulations
- 2015
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Ingår i: Procedia Computer Science. - : Elsevier. - 1877-0509. ; , s. 1178-1187, s. 1178-1187
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- We demonstrate the improvements to an implicit Particle-in-Cell code, iPic3D, on the example of dipolar magnetic field immersed in the flow of the plasma and show the formation of a magnetosphere. We address the problem of modelling multi-scale phenomena during the formation of a magnetosphere by implementing an adaptive sub-cycling technique to resolve the motion of particles located close to the magnetic dipole centre, where the magnetic field intensity is maximum. In addition, we implemented new open boundary conditions to model the inflow and outflow of plasma. We present the results of a global three-dimensional Particle-in-Cell simulation and discuss the performance improvements from the adaptive sub-cycling technique.
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- Peng, Ivy Bo, et al.
(författare)
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Energetic particles in magnetotail reconnection
- 2015
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Ingår i: Journal of Plasma Physics. - 0022-3778 .- 1469-7807. ; 81
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- We carried out a 3D fully kinetic simulation of Earth's magnetotail magnetic reconnection to study the dynamics of energetic particles. We developed and implemented a new relativistic particle mover in iPIC3D, an implicit Particle-in-Cell code, to correctly model the dynamics of energetic particles. Before the onset of magnetic reconnection, energetic electrons are found localized close to current sheet and accelerated by lower hybrid drift instability. During magnetic reconnection, energetic particles are found in the reconnection region along the x-line and in the separatrices region. The energetic electrons are first present in localized stripes of the separatrices and finally cover all the separatrix surfaces. Along the separatrices, regions with strong electron deceleration are found. In the reconnection region, two categories of electron trajectory are identified. First, part of the electrons are trapped in the reconnection region, bouncing a few times between the outflow jets. Second, part of the electrons pass the reconnection region without being trapped. Different from electrons, energetic ions are localized on the reconnection fronts of the outflow jets.
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- Vencels, Juris, et al.
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Spectral solver for multi-scale plasma physics simulations with dynamically adaptive number of moments
- 2015
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Ingår i: Procedia Computer Science. - : Elsevier. - 1877-0509. ; , s. 1148-1157
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- A spectral method for kinetic plasma simulations based on the expansion of the velocity distribution function in a variable number of Hermite polynomials is presented. The method is based on a set of non-linear equations that is solved to determine the coefficients of the Hermite expansion satisfying the Vlasov and Poisson equations. In this paper, we first show that this technique combines the fluid and kinetic approaches into one framework. Second, we present an adaptive strategy to increase and decrease the number of Hermite functions dynamically during the simulation. The technique is applied to the Landau damping and two-stream instability test problems. Performance results show 21% and 47% saving of total simulation time in the Landau and two-stream instability test cases, respectively.
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