Simulation and Data Laboratory Plasma Physics

Prof. Dr. Paul Gibbon

Building 14.14 /
Room 4015

+49 2461/61-1499

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Until 2023, the Plasma Simulation and Data Laboratory was a research and support group with expertise in advanced simulation techniques needed for tackling the highly nonlinear, multi-dimensional problems prevalent in contemporary plasma theory. It was among the first Simulation Laboratories founded at JSC in 2010. One of its main tasks was to actively engage with national and European plasma groups, helping them to harness the world-class supercomputer facilities available at JSC.

Goals

High-level support for supercomputing projects at JSC
Improving scalability of plasma simulation codes on high-end supercomputers
Development of advanced numerical algorithms for kinetic and magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) modelling of plasmas
Hosting of repositories for commonly used codes
Community building, e.g. via a visitor programme and workshops

Research Topics

Team members

Projects and Collaborations

All publications

All publications by members of the SDL PP. These will cover research on plasma physics as well as support activities.

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PEPC

JuSPIC

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Computational Plasma Physics

Software Projects

PEPC

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.

JuSPIC

JuSPIC is a new open source development from JSC aiming for exascale machines. It is a particle-in-cell (PIC) code for particle simulations in electromagnetic fields. The non-linear interaction between the fields and the plasma is described by the relativistic Vlasov equation and Maxwell's equations.

Projects and Collaborations

EoCoE

The Energy oriented Centre of Excellence in computing applications uses the tremendous potential offered by the ever-growing computing infrastructure to foster and accelerate the European transition to a reliable and low carbon energy supply using HPC (High Performance Computing).

Mont-Blanc

This project will develop HPC systems from today's energy-efficient solutions used in embedded and mobile devices. As of today, the CPUs of these devices are mostly designed by ARM. However, ARM processors have not been designed for HPC, and ARM chips have never been used in HPC systems before, leading to a number of significant challenges.

NVIDIA Application Lab

NVIDIA joined forces with JSC in form of new competency centers to advance the creation and optimisation of research codes on GPU-accelerated systems.

Nu-FuSE - Nuclear Fusion Simulations at Exascale

Given the high cost of developing exascale computers and their software, any application to use them must start from a base of having a very solid socio-economic, scientific and technological base. In addition, it must bring together experts from the application science, computational scientists and, ideally, those who will work to exploit the results for wider benefit. The NuFuSE project addresses all of these issues.