TY  - COMP
AU  - Chew, Junxian
AU  - Brömmel, Dirk
AU  - Gibbon, Paul
TI  - The Pretty Efficient Parallel Coulomb Solver (PEPC) (v2.1.0-Townsend); 2.1.0
M1  - FZJ-2023-02168
PY  - 2023
AB  - The PEPC project (Pretty Efficient Parallel Coulomb Solver) is a public tree code that has been developed at Jülich Supercomputing Centre since the early 2000s. Our tree code is a non-recursive version of the Barnes-Hut algorithm, using a level-by-level approach to both tree construction and traversals. The parallel version is a hybrid MPI/PThreads implementation of the Warren-Salmon 'Hashed Oct-Tree' scheme, including several variations of the tree traversal routine - the most challenging component in terms of scalability. The code is structurally divided into three parts: kernel routines that handle all tree code specific data structures and communication as well as the actual tree traversal. interaction-specific modules , i.e. routines that apply to specific interaction kernels and multipole expansions. Currently, the following interaction kernels are available: Coulomb-interaction/gravitation, algebraic kernels for vortex methods, nearest-neighbour interactions for smooth particle hydrodynamics (SPH). 'front-end' applications . For example PEPC-essential, a skeleton molecular dynamics program simulating a coulomb explosion, PEPC-b, a code for laser- or particle beam-plasma interactions as well as plasma-wall interactions, PEPC-v, an application for simulating vortex dynamics using the vortex particle method, several internal experimental frontends.
KW  - Barnes-Hut (Other)
KW  - tree code (Other)
KW  - High Performance Computing (Other)
KW  - HPC (Other)
KW  - ITER (Other)
KW  - Tokamak (Other)
KW  - Townsend Avalanche (Other)
LB  - PUB:(DE-HGF)33
DO  - DOI:10.5281/ZENODO.7966171
UR  - https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/1007701
ER  -