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To use the massively parallel scalar type supercomputer for the large scale numerical magnetospheric simulation, we made performance evaluation of a three-dimensional Magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulation code for space plasma simulations of planetary magnetosphere on the K computer with 262,144 cores at RIKEN. For parallelization of the MHD code, we use four different methods, i.e., regular one-dimensional, two-dimensional, three-dimensional domain decomposition methods and a cache-hit type of three-dimensional domain decomposition method. We found that the one-dimensional decomposition and cache-hit type of three-dimensional decomposition achieves the best performance and our MHD code can scale over 200,000 processes on the K computer.
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Fukazawa, K., Nanri, T., Umeda, T. (2013). Performance Evaluation of Magnetohydrodynamics Simulation for Magnetosphere on K Computer. In: Tan, G., Yeo, G.K., Turner, S.J., Teo, Y.M. (eds) AsiaSim 2013. AsiaSim 2013. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 402. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-45037-2_61
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