ANL, Argonne
Peta-scalable software packages for beam dynamic simulations are being developed and used at the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility. The standard Particle-In-Cell (PIC) method and direct Vlasov solvers in 4 dimensions have been developed and benchmarked with respect to each other. Both of them have been successfully run on 32 thousands processors on BG/P at Argonne National Laboratory. Challenges and prospects of developing Vlasov solvers in higher dimensions will be discussed. Several scalable Poisson solvers have been developed and incorporated with these software packages. Domain decomposition method has been used for the parallelization. In the future developments, these algorithms will be applied to hundreds of thousands processors for peta-scale computing. These software packages have been applied for the design of accelerators, and some large scale simulations will be shown and discussed.
ANL, Argonne
NekCEM is a high-performance parallel code for simulating wakefields based on high-order discretizations*,**. We will present performance of NekCEM code at large count of processors. A newly developed communication kernel for NekCEM enables simulations on 10K-100K processors. We will demonstrate scalablity analysis for P>10K, depending on the number of grid points per processor for wakepotential simulations with a 9-cell TESLA cavity.
* Spectral element discontinuous Galerkin (SEDG) simulations with a moving window, Proc. PAC09
** SEDG simulations for bunched beam in accelerating structures, Proc. PAC07