Institute for Advanced Simulation (IAS)

Jülich Supercomputing Centre (JSC)

Simulation and Data Laboratory Plasma Physics

Prof. Dr. Paul Gibbon

Building 14.14 /
Room 4015

+49 2461/61-1499

The Plasma Simulation and Data Laboratory is 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. One of its main tasks is 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

Previous 3rd Party Projects

Publications

The 10 most recent publications of the SDL PP.

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

Projects and Collaborations

EoCoE

The Energy oriented Centre of Excellence in computing applications (EoCoE) 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.

NVIDIA Application Lab

NVIDIA joined forces with JSC in form of a competency center to advance the creation and optimisation of research codes on GPU-accelerated systems. Close cooperation with the NVIDIA Application Lab enables several codes to be ported and tuned to prototype and production systems.

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.