Ultrahigh-order Maxwell solver with extreme scalability for electromagnetic PIC simulations of plasmas
Abstract
The advent of massively parallel supercomputers, with their distributed-memory technology using many processing units, has favored the development of highly-scalable local low-order solvers at the expense of harder-to-scale global very high-order spectral methods. Indeed, FFT-based methods, which were very popular on shared memory computers, have been largely replaced by finite-difference (FD) methods for the solution of many problems, including plasmas simulations with electromagnetic Particle-In-Cell methods. For some problems, such as the modeling of so-called “plasma mirrors” for the generation of high-energy particles and ultra-short radiations, we have shown that the inaccuracies of standard FD-based PIC methods prevent the modeling on present supercomputers at sufficient accuracy. Here, we demonstrate here that a new method, based on the use of local FFTs, enables ultrahigh-order accuracy with unprecedented scalability, and thus for the first time the accurate modeling of plasma mirrors in 3D.
- Authors:
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[1];
[2]
- Univ. Paris-Saclay, Gif-sur-Yvette (France); Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
- Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States). National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC); Univ. of California, Oakland, CA (United States); Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1543534
- Alternate Identifier(s):
- OSTI ID: 1548522
- Grant/Contract Number:
- AC02-05CH11231; AC02-06CH11357
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Computer Physics Communications
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 228; Journal Issue: C; Journal ID: ISSN 0010-4655
- Publisher:
- Elsevier
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 97 MATHEMATICS AND COMPUTING; 70 PLASMA PHYSICS AND FUSION TECHNOLOGY; Computer Science; Physics; Electromagnetic Particle-In-Cell method; Massively parallel pseudo-spectral solvers; Relativistic plasma mirrors; Pseudo-spectral analytical time domain solver; Finite-difference time-domain solver
Citation Formats
Vincenti, Henri, and Vay, Jean -Luc. Ultrahigh-order Maxwell solver with extreme scalability for electromagnetic PIC simulations of plasmas. United States: N. p., 2018.
Web. doi:10.1016/j.cpc.2018.03.018.
Vincenti, Henri, & Vay, Jean -Luc. Ultrahigh-order Maxwell solver with extreme scalability for electromagnetic PIC simulations of plasmas. United States. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cpc.2018.03.018
Vincenti, Henri, and Vay, Jean -Luc. Tue .
"Ultrahigh-order Maxwell solver with extreme scalability for electromagnetic PIC simulations of plasmas". United States. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cpc.2018.03.018. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1543534.
@article{osti_1543534,
title = {Ultrahigh-order Maxwell solver with extreme scalability for electromagnetic PIC simulations of plasmas},
author = {Vincenti, Henri and Vay, Jean -Luc},
abstractNote = {The advent of massively parallel supercomputers, with their distributed-memory technology using many processing units, has favored the development of highly-scalable local low-order solvers at the expense of harder-to-scale global very high-order spectral methods. Indeed, FFT-based methods, which were very popular on shared memory computers, have been largely replaced by finite-difference (FD) methods for the solution of many problems, including plasmas simulations with electromagnetic Particle-In-Cell methods. For some problems, such as the modeling of so-called “plasma mirrors” for the generation of high-energy particles and ultra-short radiations, we have shown that the inaccuracies of standard FD-based PIC methods prevent the modeling on present supercomputers at sufficient accuracy. Here, we demonstrate here that a new method, based on the use of local FFTs, enables ultrahigh-order accuracy with unprecedented scalability, and thus for the first time the accurate modeling of plasma mirrors in 3D.},
doi = {10.1016/j.cpc.2018.03.018},
journal = {Computer Physics Communications},
number = C,
volume = 228,
place = {United States},
year = {Tue Mar 27 00:00:00 EDT 2018},
month = {Tue Mar 27 00:00:00 EDT 2018}
}
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