Co-design of Parallel Numerical Methods for Plasma Physics and Astrophysics

Authors

  • Boris M. Glinskiy Institute of Computational Mathematics and Mathematical Geophysics SB RAS, Novosibirsk
  • Igor M. Kulikov Institute of Computational Mathematics and Mathematical Geophysics SB RAS, Novosibirsk
  • Alexey V. Snytnikov Institute of Computational Mathematics and Mathematical Geophysics SB RAS, Novosibirsk
  • Alexey A. Romanenko Novosibirsk State University, Novosibirsk
  • Igor G. Chernykh Institute of Computational Mathematics and Mathematical Geophysics SB RAS, Novosibirsk
  • Vitaly A. Vshivkov Institute of Computational Mathematics and Mathematical Geophysics SB RAS, Novosibirsk

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.14529/jsfi140305

Abstract

Physically meaningful simulations in plasma physics and astrophysics need powerful hybrid supercomputers equipped with computation accelerators. The development of parallel numerical codes for such supercomputers is a complex scientific problem. In order to solve it the concept of co-design is employed. The co-design is defined as considering the architecture of the supercomputer at all stages of the development of the code. The use of co-design is shown by the example of two physical problems: the interaction of an electron beam with plasma and the collision of galaxies. The resulting speedup and efficiency are shown.

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Published

2015-03-27

How to Cite

Glinskiy, B. M., Kulikov, I. M., Snytnikov, A. V., Romanenko, A. A., Chernykh, I. G., & Vshivkov, V. A. (2015). Co-design of Parallel Numerical Methods for Plasma Physics and Astrophysics. Supercomputing Frontiers and Innovations, 1(3), 88–98. https://doi.org/10.14529/jsfi140305

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Vol. 1 No. 3 (2014)

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