Anderson R

Andy Herdman

Bailey DH

Barnette D

Bird RF

Birdsall CK

Heroux MA

Karlin I

Michael R Bareford

Patrick Gillies

Payne J

Robert F Bird

Rossi F

Stephen Jarvis

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 Despite the recent successes of nuclear energy researchers, the scientific community still remains some distance from being able to create controlled, self-sustaining fusion reactions. Inertial Confinement Fusion (ICF) techniques represent one possible option to surpass this barrier, with scientific simulation playing a leading role in guiding and supporting their development. The simulation of such techniques allows for safe and efficient investigation of laser design and pulse shaping, as well as providing insight into the reaction as a whole. The research presented here focuses on the simulation code EPOCH, a fully relativistic particle-in-cell plasma physics code concerned with faithfully recreating laser-plasma interactions at scale.  A significant challenge in developing large codes like EPOCH is maintaining effective scientific delivery on successive generations of high-performance computing architecture. To support this process, we adopt the use of mini-applications – small code proxies that encapsulate important computational properties of their larger parent counterparts. Through the development of a mini-application for EPOCH (called miniEPOCH), we investigate a variety of the performance features exhibited in EPOCH, expose opportunities for optimisation and increased scientific capability, and offer our conclusions to guide future changes to similar ICF codes. </jats:p

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The International Journal of High Performance Computing Applications

Performance Optimisation of Inertial Confinement Fusion Codes using Mini-applications

http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/81789/7/WRAP-performance-optimisation-inertial-Jarvis-2017.pdf

Performance Optimisation of Inertial Confinement Fusion Codes using Mini-applications

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