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Radiative signaturesof the relativistic kelvin-helmholtz instability

  • M. Bussmann
  • , H. Burau
  • , T. E. Cowan
  • , A. Debus
  • , A. Huebl
  • , G. Juckeland
  • , T. Kluge
  • , W. E. Nagel
  • , R. Pausch
  • , F. Schmitt
  • , U. Schramm
  • , J. Schuchart
  • , R. Widera
  • Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf
  • Technische Universität Dresden

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Abstract

We present a particle-in-cell simulation of the relativistic Kelvin-Helmholtz Instability (KHI) that for the first time delivers angularly resolved radiation spectra of the particle dynamics during the formation of the KHI. This enables studying the formation of the KHI with unprecedented spatial, angular and spectral resolution. Our results are of great importance for understanding astrophysical jet formation and comparable plasma phenomena by relating the particle motion observed in the KHI to its radiation signature. The innovative methods presented here on the implementation of the particle-in-cell algorithm on graphic processing units can be directly adapted to any many-core parallelization of the particle-mesh method. With these methods we see a peak performance of 7.176 PFLOP/s (double-precision) plus 1.449 PFLOP/s (single-precision), an efficiency of 96% when weakly scaling from 1 to 18432 nodes, an efficiency of 68.92% and a speed up of 794 (ideal: 1152) when strongly scaling from 16 to 18432 nodes.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of SC 2013
Subtitle of host publicationThe International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis
PublisherIEEE Computer Society
ISBN (Print)9781450323789
DOIs
StatePublished - 2013
Event2013 International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis, SC 2013 - Denver, CO, United States
Duration: Nov 17 2013Nov 22 2013

Publication series

NameInternational Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis, SC
ISSN (Print)2167-4329
ISSN (Electronic)2167-4337

Conference

Conference2013 International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis, SC 2013
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityDenver, CO
Period11/17/1311/22/13

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