Two-dimensional particle-in-cell simulation on transputer arrays
Abstract
The authors have implemented a particle-in-cell method on a 32 transputer computing network. The tests have shown that the performance of this system reaches 1/8 of the equivalent one for the code optimized for a CRAY Y-MP/2E. The system performance analysis shows that this network remains cost-effective until expanded approximately up to 100 transputers. This transputer equipment has provided an efficient computational tool for investigating a novel physical phenomenon -- a collisionless mechanism for separation of different elements in colliding plasma beams.
- Publication:
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Presented at the Supercomputing Conference on High Performance Computing and Communications
- Pub Date:
- May 1993
- Bibcode:
- 1993hpcc.conf...15D
- Keywords:
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- Computer Networks;
- Computerized Simulation;
- Cray Computers;
- Data Processing;
- Ion Beams;
- Parallel Processing (Computers);
- Personal Computers;
- Plasma Interactions;
- Transputers;
- Two Dimensional Models;
- Cost Effectiveness;
- Hydrogen Ions;
- Atomic and Molecular Physics