Author/Authors :
Emoto، نويسنده , , Masahiko and Yoshida، نويسنده , , Masanobu and Suzuki، نويسنده , , Chihiro and Suzuki، نويسنده , , Yasuhiro and Ida، نويسنده , , Katsumi and Nagayama، نويسنده , , Yoshio and Akiyama، نويسنده , , Tsuyoshi and Kawahata، نويسنده , , Kazuo and Narihara، نويسنده , , Kazumichi and Tokuzawa، نويسنده , , Tokihiko and Yamada، نويسنده , , Ichihiro، نويسنده ,
Abstract :
This paper presents a system called “TSMAP” that maps electron temperature profiles to flux coordinates for the Large Helical Device (LHD). Considering the flux surface is isothermal, TSMAP searches an equilibrium database for the LHD equilibrium that fits the electron temperature profile. The equilibrium database is built through many VMEC computations of the helical equilibria. Because the number of equilibria is large, the most important technical issue for realizing the TSMAP system is computational performance. Therefore, we use multiple personal computers to enhance performance when building the database for TSMAP. We use virtual machines on multiple Linux computers to run the TSMAP program. Virtual machine technology is flexible, allowing the number of computers to be easily increased. This paper discusses how the use of virtual machine technology enhances the performance of TSMAP calculations when multiple CPU cores are used.
Keywords :
DATABASE , Computing technique , Virtual machines , Equilibrium , TSMAP , multiple core
