Performance of a particle-in-cell plasma simulation code on the BBN TC2000

✍ Scribed by Sturtevant, Judy E. ;Campbell, Phil M. ;Maccabe, Arthur B.

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1992
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 950 KB
• Volume: 4
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1040-3108
• DOI: 10.1002/cpe.4330040102

✦ Synopsis

The BBN TC2000 is a multiple instruction, multiple data (MIMD) machine that combines a physically distributed memory with a logically shared memory programming environment using the unique Butterfly switch. Particle-in-cell (PIC) plasma simulations model the interaction of charged particles with electric and magnetic fields. This paper describes the implementation of both a 1-D electrostatic and a 2 UZD electromagnetic PIC (particle-in-cell) plasma simulation code on a BBN TC2000. Performance is compared to implementation of the same code on the shared memory Sequent Balance 21000.

1/2-D PIC (particle-incell) plasma simulation code on a BBN TC2000 at Argonne National Laboratory's Advanced Computing Research Facility. Performance is compared to implementation of the same code on the shared memory Sequent Balance 21000.

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