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Title: Porting the 3D Gyrokinetic Particle-in-cell Code GTC to the CRAY/NEC SX-6 Vector Architecture: Perspectives and Challenges

Abstract

Several years of optimization on the super-scalar architecture has made it more difficult to port the current version of the 3D particle-in-cell code GTC to the CRAY/NEC SX-6 vector architecture. This paper explains the initial work that has been done to port this code to the SX-6 computer and to optimize the most time consuming parts. Early performance results are shown and compared to the same test done on the IBM SP Power 3 and Power 4 machines.

Authors:
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Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Princeton Plasma Physics Lab. (PPPL), Princeton, NJ (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Office of Science (SC) (US)
OSTI Identifier:
815094
Report Number(s):
PPPL-3869
TRN: US0304447
DOE Contract Number:  
AC02-76CH03073
Resource Type:
Technical Report
Resource Relation:
Other Information: PBD: 15 Sep 2003
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
70 PLASMA PHYSICS AND FUSION TECHNOLOGY; ARCHITECTURE; COMPUTERS; OPTIMIZATION; PERFORMANCE; VECTORS; SUPERCOMPUTERS; TURBULENCE; COMPUTER PROGRAMS

Citation Formats

Ethier, S, and Lin, Z. Porting the 3D Gyrokinetic Particle-in-cell Code GTC to the CRAY/NEC SX-6 Vector Architecture: Perspectives and Challenges. United States: N. p., 2003. Web. doi:10.2172/815094.
Ethier, S, & Lin, Z. Porting the 3D Gyrokinetic Particle-in-cell Code GTC to the CRAY/NEC SX-6 Vector Architecture: Perspectives and Challenges. United States. https://doi.org/10.2172/815094
Ethier, S, and Lin, Z. 2003. "Porting the 3D Gyrokinetic Particle-in-cell Code GTC to the CRAY/NEC SX-6 Vector Architecture: Perspectives and Challenges". United States. https://doi.org/10.2172/815094. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/815094.
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title = {Porting the 3D Gyrokinetic Particle-in-cell Code GTC to the CRAY/NEC SX-6 Vector Architecture: Perspectives and Challenges},
author = {Ethier, S and Lin, Z},
abstractNote = {Several years of optimization on the super-scalar architecture has made it more difficult to port the current version of the 3D particle-in-cell code GTC to the CRAY/NEC SX-6 vector architecture. This paper explains the initial work that has been done to port this code to the SX-6 computer and to optimize the most time consuming parts. Early performance results are shown and compared to the same test done on the IBM SP Power 3 and Power 4 machines.},
doi = {10.2172/815094},
url = {https://www.osti.gov/biblio/815094}, journal = {},
number = ,
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place = {United States},
year = {Mon Sep 15 00:00:00 EDT 2003},
month = {Mon Sep 15 00:00:00 EDT 2003}
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