DocumentCode
1603318
Title
Progress in parallelizing XOOPIC
Author
Mardahl, P.J. ; Verboncoeur, John P.
Author_Institution
Dept. of Electr. Eng. & Comput. Sci., California Univ., Berkeley, CA, USA
fYear
1998
Firstpage
129
Lastpage
130
Abstract
Summary form only given. XOOPIC (object oriented particle in cell code for X11-based Unix workstations) is presently a serial 2d 3v particle-in-cell plasma simulation. The present effort focuses on using parallel and distributed processing to optimize the simulation for large problems. The benefits include increased capacity for memory intensive problems, and improved performance for processor-intensive problems.
Keywords
parallel processing; physics computing; plasma simulation; 2d 3v particle-in-cell plasma simulation; X11-based Unix workstations; XOOPIC; distributed processing; large problems; memory intensive problems; object oriented particle in cell code; parallel processing; processor-intensive problems; Concurrent computing; Equations; Magnetohydrodynamic power generation; Object oriented modeling; Physics computing; Plasma applications; Plasma confinement; Plasma devices; Plasma simulation; Workstations;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Plasma Science, 1998. 25th Anniversary. IEEE Conference Record - Abstracts. 1998 IEEE International on
Conference_Location
Raleigh, NC, USA
ISSN
0730-9244
Print_ISBN
0-7803-4792-7
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/PLASMA.1998.677516
Filename
677516
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