Fast and Parallel Computational Techniques Applied to Numerical Modeling of RFX-mod Fusion Device
Keywords:
Fusion plasma devices, GPUs, HPC, integral formulation, parallelismAbstract
This paper presents fast computational techniques applied to modelling the RFX-mod fusion device. An integral equation model is derived for the current distribution on the active coils of the conducting structures, and the input-output transfer functions are computed. Speed-up factors of about 200 can be obtained on hybrid CPU-GPU parallelization against uniprocessor computation.
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