Advances in petascale kinetic plasma simulation with VPIC and Roadrunner

Bowers, Kevin J; Albright, Brian J; Yin, Lin; Daughton, William S; Roytershteyn, Vadim; Kwan, Thomas J T

doi:10.1088/1742-6596/180/1/012055

Advances in petascale kinetic plasma simulation with VPIC and Roadrunner

Journal Article · Thu Jan 01 04:00:00 EST 2009

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1088/1742-6596/180/1/012055· OSTI ID:989793

Bowers, Kevin J ^[1]; Albright, Brian J ^[1]; Yin, Lin ^[1]; Daughton, William S ^[1]; Roytershteyn, Vadim ^[1]; Kwan, Thomas J T ^[1]

Los Alamos National Laboratory

VPIC, a first-principles 3d electromagnetic charge-conserving relativistic kinetic particle-in-cell (PIC) code, was recently adapted to run on Los Alamos's Roadrunner, the first supercomputer to break a petaflop (10{sup 15} floating point operations per second) in the TOP500 supercomputer performance rankings. They give a brief overview of the modeling capabilities and optimization techniques used in VPIC and the computational characteristics of petascale supercomputers like Roadrunner. They then discuss three applications enabled by VPIC's unprecedented performance on Roadrunner: modeling laser plasma interaction in upcoming inertial confinement fusion experiments at the National Ignition Facility (NIF), modeling short pulse laser GeV ion acceleration and modeling reconnection in magnetic confinement fusion experiments.

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Research Organization:: Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL)

Sponsoring Organization:: DOE

DOE Contract Number:: AC52-06NA25396

OSTI ID:: 989793

Report Number(s):: LA-UR-09-03524; LA-UR-09-3524

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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