PSC swMATH ID: 18205 Software Authors: Germaschewski, Kai; Fox, William; Abbott, Stephen; Ahmadi, Narges; Maynard, Kristofor; Wang, Liang; Ruhl, Hartmut; Bhattacharjee, Amitava Description: The Plasma Simulation Code: A modern particle-in-cell code with patch-based load-balancing. This work describes the Plasma Simulation Code (PSC), an explicit, electromagnetic particle-in-cell code with support for different order particle shape functions. We review the basic components of the particle-in-cell method as well as the computational architecture of the PSC code that allows support for modular algorithms and data structure in the code. We then describe and analyze in detail a distinguishing feature of PSC: patch-based load balancing using space-filling curves which is shown to lead to major efficiency gains over unbalanced methods and a previously used simpler balancing method. Homepage: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0021999116301413 Related Software: OSIRIS; PETSc; SPIS; Kokkos; PIConGPU; SoAx; Thrust; FLASH; p4est; Gerris; KELLEY; SAMRAI; hypre; Smilei; QUICKPIC; SHARP; Tempus; Isorropia; SYCL; Cabana Cited in: 9 Documents Standard Articles 1 Publication describing the Software, including 1 Publication in zbMATH Year The plasma simulation code: a modern particle-in-cell code with patch-based load-balancing. Zbl 1349.76917Germaschewski, Kai; Fox, William; Abbott, Stephen; Ahmadi, Narges; Maynard, Kristofor; Wang, Liang; Ruhl, Hartmut; Bhattacharjee, Amitava 2016 all top 5 Cited by 37 Authors 2 Bettencourt, Matthew T. 2 Brown, Dominic A. S. 2 Jarvis, Stephen A. 2 Jones, John P. 2 Maheswaran, Satheesh 2 Wright, Steven A. 1 Abbott, Stephen D. 1 Ahmadi, Narges 1 Bhattacharjee, Amitava 1 Cartwright, Keith L. 1 Chacón, Luis 1 Cho, Myung-Hoon 1 Cyr, Eric C. 1 Del Sarto, Daniele 1 Deriaz, Erwan 1 Ehrlacher, Virginie 1 Germaschewski, Kai 1 Glusa, Christian A. 1 He, Yang 1 Homann, Holger 1 Kim, Minseok 1 Laenen, Francois 1 Lin, Paul T. 1 Liu, Jian 1 Lombardi, Damiano 1 Maynard, Kristofor 1 Mcgregor, Duncan A. O. 1 Moore, Stan G. 1 Nam, Inhyuk 1 Pawlowski, Roger P. 1 Pernice, Michael 1 Philip, Bobby 1 Phillips, Edward G. 1 Roberts, Nathan V. 1 Ruhl, Hartmut 1 Wang, Liang 1 Wang, Yulei Cited in 3 Serials 7 Journal of Computational Physics 1 Computer Physics Communications 1 Communications in Computational Physics all top 5 Cited in 10 Fields 6 Numerical analysis (65-XX) 5 Fluid mechanics (76-XX) 3 Optics, electromagnetic theory (78-XX) 3 Statistical mechanics, structure of matter (82-XX) 1 Partial differential equations (35-XX) 1 Dynamical systems and ergodic theory (37-XX) 1 Calculus of variations and optimal control; optimization (49-XX) 1 Computer science (68-XX) 1 Mechanics of particles and systems (70-XX) 1 Information and communication theory, circuits (94-XX) Citations by Year