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NASA NTRS · 19940034033

Performance of a plasma fluid code on the Intel parallel computers

Abstract

One approach to improving the real-time efficiency of plasma turbulence calculations is to use a parallel algorithm. A parallel algorithm for plasma turbulence calculations was tested on the Intel iPSC/860 hypercube and the Touchtone Delta machine. Using the 128 processors of the Intel iPSC/860 hypercube, a factor of 5 improvement over a single-processor CRAY-2 is obtained. For the Touchtone Delta machine, the corresponding improvement factor is 16. For plasma edge turbulence calculations, an extrapolation of the present results to the Intel (sigma) machine gives an improvement factor close to 64 over the single-processor CRAY-2.

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Lynch, V. E., Carreras, B. A., Drake, J. B., Leboeuf, J. N., Liewer, P.. 1992-01-01. Performance of a plasma fluid code on the Intel parallel computers. https://ntrs.nasa.gov/citations/19940034033

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