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Par-T: A Parallel Relativistic Fully 3D Electromagnetic Particle-in-Cell Code

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Applied Parallel Computing. New Paradigms for HPC in Industry and Academia (PARA 2000)

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The parallel relativistic fully 3D electromagnetic particle- in-cell code par-T is presented. It is intended to model plasma wave phenomena in extended plasmas with low density inhomogeneities. The code uses a leapfrog scheme to push particles and a finite-difference time- domain method to update the electromagnetic field. The parallelization is based on a domain decomposition, ensuring both low communication cost and good load balancing. The implementation is based on Fortran 90/MPI and is therefore easily portable. Performance results on a Cray- T3E, a SUN HPC and a Beowulf-Cluster are presented.

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  1. Institute of Astronomy, ETH Zentrum, CH-8092, Zürich, Switzerland

    Peter Messmer

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  1. Department of Informatics, University of Bergen, 5020, Bergen, Norway

    Tor Sørevik , Fredrik Manne  & Assefaw Hadish Gebremedhin ,  & 

  2. Parallab, University of Bergen, 5020, Bergen, Norway

    Randi Moe

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Messmer, P. (2001). Par-T: A Parallel Relativistic Fully 3D Electromagnetic Particle-in-Cell Code. In: Sørevik, T., Manne, F., Gebremedhin, A.H., Moe, R. (eds) Applied Parallel Computing. New Paradigms for HPC in Industry and Academia. PARA 2000. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1947. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-70734-4_41

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