A parallel current deposition method for PIC simulation on GPU

Author

Pan Wang ; Hongbin Zhuo ; Yue Wang ; Xun Cai

Author_Institution

Northwest Inst. of Nucl. Technol., Xi´an, China

fYear

2015

fDate

27-29 April 2015

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

2

Abstract

This paper offers a GPU-based implementation of the Particle-In-Cell (PIC) algorithm for dense plasma simulations. In particular we focus on fast algorithms for current depositing and proposed a parallel segmented reduction method on GPU. The presented method makes full use of the advantages of zigzag scheme and can greatly avoid writing-conflict caused by depositing currents. We obtained performance increases of about 4x over thread racing implementations in our experiments. Our method is expected to get higher speedups in denser plasma simulations due to its high degree of parallelism.

Keywords

graphics processing units; parallel algorithms; physics computing; plasma simulation; GPU-based implementation; PIC simulation; Particle-In-Cell algorithm; dense plasma simulations; parallel current deposition method; parallel segmented reduction method; zigzag scheme; Computer architecture; Computers; Graphics processing units; Instruction sets; Microprocessors; Plasma simulation; Three-dimensional displays; GPU; current deposition; parallel reduction; particle-in-cell;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Vacuum Electronics Conference (IVEC), 2015 IEEE International

Conference_Location

Beijing

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-7109-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IVEC.2015.7224036

Filename

7224036