Performance Analysis of a Particle-in-Cell Plasma Physics Code on Homogeneous and Heterogeneous HPC Systems
Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC-CNS), C. Gran Capita 2-4, 08034 Barcelona, Spain
Congress on Numerical Methods in Engineering (CMN), 2015
@article{saez2015performance,
title={Performance Analysis of a Particle-in-Cell Plasma Physics Code on Homogeneous and Heterogeneous HPC Systems},
author={S{‘a}ez, Xavier and Soba, Alejandro and S{‘a}nchez, Edilberto and Mantsinen, Mervi and Cela, Jos{‘e} M},
year={2015}
}
PIC methods are one of the most used methods in plasma simulations. We present a comprehensible evaluation of the PIC code performance on four current parallel platforms: IBM PowerPC, Intel Nehalem (SMP), Intel Sandy Bridge (SMP) and ARM GPU. The behavior of computational algorithms and data structures are analyzed to deduce which code optimizations will make the best use of each platform.
July 29, 2015 by hgpu
