PICSAR Related publications
Optimization on modern computers
[1] H. Vincenti, M. Lobet, R. Lehe, J.-L. Vay, J. Deslippe, “PIC codes on the road to exascale architectures”, Exascale scientific applications, Chapman and Hall/CRC Computational Science Series, chap 17, ISBN 9781138197541 (2017)
[2] H. Vincenti, M. Lobet, R. Lehe, R. Sasanka, J.-L. Vay, “An efficient and portable SIMD algorithm for charge/current deposition in Particle-In-Cell codes”, Computer Physics Communications, 210, 145-154 (2017)
[3] Barnes, T., Cook, B., Deslippe, J., He, T. K., Koskela, T., Lobet, M., … & Vay, J. L., “Evaluating and optimizing the NERSC workload on Knights Landing”, Supercomputing Conference, 7th International Workshop on Performance Modeling, Benchmarking and Simulation of High Performance Computer Systems, pp. 43-53 (2016)
[4] Doerfler, D., Deslippe, J., Williams, S., Oliker, L., Cook, B., Kurth, T., … & Vincenti, H., Applying the Roofline Performance Model to the Intel Xeon Phi Knights Landing Processor, International Conference on High Performance Computing, pp. 339-353, Springer International Publishing (2016)
Massively parallel Pseudo-spectral PIC algorithm
[1] H. Vincenti, J.-L. Vay, “Ultra-High order Maxwell solver with extreme scalability for electromagnetic PIC simulations of plasmas”, Computer Physics Communications, in review (2017)
[2] H. Vincenti, J.-L. Vay, “Detailed analysis of the effects of stencil spatial variations with arbitrary high-order finite-difference Maxwell solver”, Computer Physics Communications, 200, 147 (2016)
[3] J.-L. Vay, I. Haber, B. B. Godfrey, “A domain decomposition method for pseudo-spectral electromagnetic simulations of plasmas”, J. Comput. Phys., 243, 260-268 (2013)
Benchmark of PICSAR against Ultra-High Intensity laser-plasma experiments and standard codes
[1] H. Vincenti, J.-L. Vay, “Ultra-High order Maxwell solver with extreme scalability for electromagnetic PIC simulations of plasmas”, Computer Physics Communications, in review (2017)
[2] A. Leblanc, S. Monchocé, H. Vincenti, S. Kahaly, J.-L. Vay, F. Quéré, “Spatial properties of high-order harmonic beams from plasma mirrors: a ptychographic study”, Physical Review Letters, 119, 155001 (2017)
[3] G. Blaclard, H. Vincenti, R. Lehe, J.-L. Vay “Pseudo-spectral Maxwell solvers for an accurate modeling of Doppler harmonic generation on plasma mirrors with Particle-In-Cell codes”, Physical Review E, 93, 033305 (2017)
Other interesting resources related to code optimization
KNL programming model
MCDRAM as High-Bandwidth Memory (HBM) in Knights Landing Processors: Developer’s Guide, accessed February 2017, https://colfaxresearch.com/knl-mcdram/
PIC code optimization
I.A. Surmin, S.I. Bastrakov, E.S. Efimenko, A.A. Gonoskov, A.V. Korzhimanov and I.B. Meyerov. Particle-in-cell laser-plasma simulation on Xeon Phi coprocessors. Computer Physics Communications, 202:204, 210 (2016), http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cpc.2016.02.004.
Surmin, I. A., , Bastrakov, S. I., Matveev, Z., Efimenko, E. S., Gonoskov, A. A., & Meyerov, I. B. (2016, December). Co-design of a particle-in-cell plasma simulation code for Intel Xeon Phi: a first look at Knights Landing. In International Conference on Algorithms and Architectures for Parallel Processing (pp. 319-329). Springer International Publishing. http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-49956-7_25.
Rimel, D. (2016). CPU Optimization of Particle Deposition in PIC Simulation Code. http://scholar.colorado.edu/honr_theses/1237/
Ding, D., Wen, M., Zhou, S., Chen, M., & Lin, J. (2016). Optimization and Evaluation of VLPL-S Particle-in-cell Code on Knights Landing. http://hpc.sjtu.edu.cn/hpcchina16_vlpl_s.pdf
Nakashima, H. (2015). Manycore challenge in particle-in-cell simulation: how to exploit 1 TFlops peak performance for simulation codes with irregular computation. Computers & Electrical Engineering, 46, 81-94. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.compeleceng.2015.03.010
Decyk, V. K., & Singh, T. V. (2014). Particle-in-cell algorithms for emerging computer architectures. Computer Physics Communications, 185(3), 708-719. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cpc.2013.10.013
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