Parallelization of the Tarticle-in-CelP (PIC) density calculations in plasma computer simulations

Abstract

The paper deals with the problem of parallelized Particle-In-Cell charge density calculations used in computer plasma simulation. The dependencies between the execution time and the simulation parameters such as the number of 'macro particles', plasma density, particular charge distribution technique and the number of processing units are presented. The local computer cluster and MPI standard have been used in order to parallelize calculations.