Implementation of parallel plasma particle-in-cell codes on SuperSINET based grid

Author

Tao, Weifeng ; Cai, Dongsheng

Author_Institution

Inf. Syst. & Eng. Dept., Tsukuba Univ., Tsukuba City

fYear

2005

fDate

1-1 July 2005

Lastpage

338

Abstract

We present our parallel plasma particle-in-cell simulation experiment based on a computation grid system on the high performance network SuperSINET. This computation grid system consists of three supercomputer nodes on SuperSINET configured with the Globus Toolkits andMPICH-G2. In our experiments, we first confirm the scalability of the parallel PIC simulation code on this computational grid. After we analyze the results and find that the bottleneck point exist on communication across the network, we successfully make use of some useful features of Globus and MPICH-G2 architecture to improve communication efficiency across the network

Keywords

communication complexity; grid computing; parallel processing; plasma simulation; Globus Toolkits; MPICH-G2; communication efficiency; computation grid system; high performance network SuperSINET; parallel PIC simulation code; parallel plasma particle-in-cell codes; particle-in-cell simulation; supercomputer nodes; Computational modeling; Computer architecture; Computer networks; Computer simulation; Concurrent computing; Grid computing; High performance computing; Plasma simulation; Scalability; Supercomputers;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

High-Performance Computing in Asia-Pacific Region, 2005. Proceedings. Eighth International Conference on

Conference_Location

Beijing

Print_ISBN

0-7695-2486-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/HPCASIA.2005.50

Filename

1592286