Benchmark Tests of Fusion Plasma Simulation Codes for Studying Microturbulence and Energetic-Particle Dynamics

Tomo-Hiko WATANABE, Yasushi TODO, Wendell HORTON
2008 Plasma and Fusion Research  
Benchmark tests of two simulation codes used for studying microturbulence and energetic-particle dynamics in magnetic fusion plasmas are conducted on present-day parallel supercomputer systems. Both the codes achieved high efficiency on the Earth Simulator with vector processors, and showed good performance scaling on massively parallel supercomputers with more than 10,000 commodity processors. The benchmark results obtained indicated high adaptability of fusion plasma simulation codes to state-of-the-art supercomputer systems.
doi:10.1585/pfr.3.061 fatcat:44g5llbqxnajnkwumd4sp5l63m