William Tang
Princeton University
The fusion energy sciences community has made excellent progress in developing advanced codes for which computer run-time and problem size scale well with the number of processors on massively parallel supercomputers. A good example is the effective usage of the full power of modern leadership class computational platforms from the terascale to the petascale and beyond to produce nonlinear particle-in-cell simulations which have accelerated progress in understanding the nature of plasma turbulence in magnetically-confined high temperature plasmas. Illustrative results from provide great encouragement for being able to include increasingly realistic dynamics in extreme-scale computing campaigns to enable predictive simulations with unprecedented physics fidelity.
Exascale, extreme computing, particle-in-cell, fusion energy sciences