Pushing Plasma Simulations Towards Exascale Performance with PIConGPU

With PIConGPU, new physics phenomena previously not accessible within laser plasma simulations can be studied, which will help us optimize laser-driven radiation sources. Presents results on laser wakefield acceleration of electrons simulated on the Oakridge TITAN system and discuss in detail which techniques help us to get the most out of these clusters. Finally showing how to add fault-tolerance and load-balancing to a large hybridh CPU-GPU code such as PIConGPU to achieve optimum performance.