Using Java for Plasma PIC Simulations
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Plasma particle-in-cell (PIC) simulations model the interactions of charged particles with the surrounding fields. This application has been recognized as one of the grand challenge problems facing the high-performance computing community due to its huge computational requirements. Recently, with the explosive development of Internet, Java is receiving increasing attention and is thought as a potential candidate for high-performance computing. In this paper, we present our approach to developing 2and 3dimensional parallel PIC simulations in Java. We also report the execution times for both versions from performance experiments on a symmetric multi-processor (Sun E6500) and a Linux cluster of Pentium III machines. Those results are also compared with benchmark measurements of the corresponding Fortran version of the same algorithm.
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