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

Authors:
Peter Messmer
Affiliations:
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Venue:
PARA '00 Proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Applied Parallel Computing, New Paradigms for HPC in Industry and Academia
Year:
2000

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Abstract

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.