Implementation of parallel plasma particle-in-cell codes on PC cluster Original Research Article

Plasma particle-in-cell (PIC) codes model the interaction of charged particles with the surrounding fields, and they have been implemented on many advanced parallel computers. Recently, many PC clusters which consist of inexpensive PCs have been developed to do parallel computing, and we also build such a PC cluster. In this paper, we present the implementation of a parallel plasma PIC code on our PC cluster using MPI, PGHPF and JavaMPI.