PICKSC

A new article in the Journal of Geophysical Space Research: Space Physics utilized simulations with the 2D darwin OpenMP skeleton code: 

An, X., C. Yue, J. Bortnik, V. Decyk, W. Li, R. M. Thorne (2017), On the parameter dependence of the whistler anisotropy instability, J. Geophy. Res. Space Physics, 122, DOI:10.1002/2017JA023895

The evolution of the whistler anisotropy instability relevant to whistler-mode chorus waves in the Earth’s inner magnetosphere was studied using kinetic simulations with mdpic2 and compared with satellite observations.

The first publication based on the skeleton codes recently appeared in Physics of Plasmas:

R. Scott Hughes, Joseph Wang, Viktor K. Decyk, and S. Peter Gary, “Effects of
variations in electron thermal velocity on the whistler anisotropy instability: Particle-in-
cell simulations,” Physics of Plasmas 23, 042106 (2016). DOI: 10.1063/1.4945748

This work made used of the 2D darwin code mdpic2 and studied whistler wave instabilities for solar wind parameters.

PICKSC’s PIC skeleton codes will be used as a case study for a tutorial on “live programming” at SC’15 in Austin, Texas on Nov 15.

For more details see: http://sc15.supercomputing.org/schedule/event_detail?evid=tut145

Professor Henry Gardner, from the Research School of Computer Science at the Australian National University, visited with Viktor Decyk from May 18-22. They continued their long-standing collaboration on design patterns for scientific programming using the new object-oriented features of Fortran2003. They hope to incorporate these patterns in future versions of the PICKSC production codes.

Henry Gardner is co-author of an advanced textbook on design patterns in scientific programming (book home page and Amazon link).

Ben Swift, a Research Fellow in the School of Computer Science at the Australian National University, has been working on a project looking at run-time load balancing and optimisation of scientific simulations running on parallel computing architectures.  He chose PICKSC’s Skeleton Codes as a basis for studying live programming workflow.

You can watch a video here:  Live programming: bringing the HPC development workflow to life

More about Ben Swift may be found on his webpage.