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most citedLeveraging HPC Profiling & Tracing Tools to Understand the Performance of Particle-in-Cell Monte Carlo Simulations

8 citations · 34 across the 13 of their papers we have counts for

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13 papers

physics.plasm-ph2026

Computational Methods and GPU Acceleration in Plasma Physics: A Empirical Analysis of arXiv Publications and Research Trends

Jeremy J. Williams, Anders Brostrom, Stefano Markidis

Computational plasma physics increasingly relies on high-performance computing (HPC) methods, including particle-in-cell (PIC), gyrokinetic, and magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulatio…

physics.plasm-ph2026

High-Performance Resilient Multi-GPU Hybrid Particle-in-Cell Monte Carlo Simulations at Scale

Jeremy J. Williams, Stefan Costea, David Tskhakaya +13

The increasing demand for high-performance computing in plasma physics has driven scalable and resilient simulation methods capable of efficiently exploiting modern multi-GPU archi…

cs.ET2026

Post-Moore Technologies for Plasma Simulation: A Community Roadmap

Luca Pennati, Erik M. Åsgrim, Jeremy J. Williams +21

Plasma simulations are among the most computationally demanding scientific workloads, combining high-dimensional kinetic evolution, particle-mesh coupling, field solves, and data-i…

physics.plasm-ph2026★ 1 cited

Multi-GPU Hybrid Particle-in-Cell Monte Carlo Simulations for Exascale Computing Systems

Jeremy J. Williams, Jordy Trilaksono, Stefan Costea +13

Particle-in-Cell (PIC) Monte Carlo (MC) simulations are central to plasma physics but face increasing challenges on heterogeneous HPC systems due to excessive data movement, synchr…

physics.plasm-ph2025★ 2 cited

Integrating High Performance In-Memory Data Streaming and In-Situ Visualization in Hybrid MPI+OpenMP PIC MC Simulations Towards Exascale

Jeremy J. Williams, Stefan Costea, Daniel Medeiros +11

Efficient simulation of complex plasma dynamics is crucial for advancing fusion energy research. Particle-in-Cell (PIC) Monte Carlo (MC) simulations provide insights into plasma be…

cs.DC2025★ 3 cited

ARC-V: Vertical Resource Adaptivity for HPC Workloads in Containerized Environments

Daniel Medeiros, Jeremy J. Williams, Jacob Wahlgren +2

Existing state-of-the-art vertical autoscalers for containerized environments are traditionally built for cloud applications, which might behave differently than HPC workloads with…

quant-ph2025★ 2 cited

A Hybrid Quantum-Classical Particle-in-Cell Method for Plasma Simulations

Pratibha Raghupati Hegde, Paolo Marcandelli, Yuanchun He +4

We present a hybrid quantum-classical electrostatic Particle-in-Cell (PIC) method, where the electrostatic field Poisson solver is implemented on a quantum computer simulator using…

cs.DC2024★ 6 cited

Enabling High-Throughput Parallel I/O in Particle-in-Cell Monte Carlo Simulations with openPMD and Darshan I/O Monitoring

Jeremy J. Williams, Daniel Medeiros, Stefan Costea +14

Large-scale HPC simulations of plasma dynamics in fusion devices require efficient parallel I/O to avoid slowing down the simulation and to enable the post-processing of critical i…

physics.plasm-ph2024★ 2 cited

Characterizing the Performance of the Implicit Massively Parallel Particle-in-Cell iPIC3D Code

Jeremy J. Williams, Daniel Medeiros, Ivy B. Peng +1

Optimizing iPIC3D, an implicit Particle-in-Cell (PIC) code, for large-scale 3D plasma simulations is crucial for space and astrophysical applications. This work focuses on characte…

physics.plasm-ph2024★ 1 cited

Understanding Large-Scale Plasma Simulation Challenges for Fusion Energy on Supercomputers

Jeremy J. Williams, Ashish Bhole, Dylan Kierans +11

Understanding plasma instabilities is essential for achieving sustainable fusion energy, with large-scale plasma simulations playing a crucial role in both the design and developme…

physics.comp-ph2024★ 2 cited

Understanding the Impact of openPMD on BIT1, a Particle-in-Cell Monte Carlo Code, through Instrumentation, Monitoring, and In-Situ Analysis

Jeremy J. Williams, Stefan Costea, Allen D. Malony +7

Particle-in-Cell Monte Carlo simulations on large-scale systems play a fundamental role in understanding the complexities of plasma dynamics in fusion devices. Efficient handling a…

cs.DC2024★ 7 cited

Accelerating Particle-in-Cell Monte Carlo Simulations with MPI, OpenMP/OpenACC and Asynchronous Multi-GPU Programming

Jeremy J. Williams, Felix Liu, Jordy Trilaksono +11

As fusion energy devices advance, plasma simulations are crucial for reactor design. Our work extends BIT1 hybrid parallelization by integrating MPI with OpenMP and OpenACC, focusi…

cs.DC2023★ 8 cited

Leveraging HPC Profiling & Tracing Tools to Understand the Performance of Particle-in-Cell Monte Carlo Simulations

Jeremy J. Williams, David Tskhakaya, Stefan Costea +3

Large-scale plasma simulations are critical for designing and developing next-generation fusion energy devices and modeling industrial plasmas. BIT1 is a massively parallel Particl…