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Parallelization of gridless finite-size-particle plasma simulation codes

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The main features of gridless finite-size-particle (FSP) codes are discussed, from the point of view of the performances that can be obtained, with respect both to the spatial-resolution level and the efficiency of parallel particle simulations. It is shown that such codes are particularly suited for particle-decomposition parallelization on distributed-memory architectures, as they present a strong reduction, in comparison with particle-in-cell (PIC) codes, of the memory and computational offsets related to storing and updating the replicated fluctuating-field arrays.

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  1. B. Di Martino

    Present address: Dipartimento di Informatica e Sistemistica, University of Naple “Federico II”, Naples, Italy

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  1. Associazione Euratom-ENEA sulla Fusione, C.R. Frascati, C.P. 65, I-00044, Frascati, Rome, Italy

    S. Briguglio, G. Vlad, G. Fogaccia & B. Di Martino

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Peter Sloot Marian Bubak Alfons Hoekstra Bob Hertzberger

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Briguglio, S., Vlad, G., Fogaccia, G., Di Martino, B. (1999). Parallelization of gridless finite-size-particle plasma simulation codes. In: Sloot, P., Bubak, M., Hoekstra, A., Hertzberger, B. (eds) High-Performance Computing and Networking. HPCN-Europe 1999. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1593. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg . https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0100585

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