Publikationsrepositorium - Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf

With new compute hardware existing today, interactive simulations of large-scale plasma dynamics have become possible. Moreover, speed ups of two orders of magnitude allow to integrate new physics into our simulations. I will present recent advances in particle-in-cell codes running on GPUs and other hardware platforms and discuss applications in laser-driven particle acceleration, ultra-short plasma phenomena at solid density and astrophysics.
Following the lessons learned from these examples I will show how gaming and file sharing may pave a path towards Exascale simulations and what the Zebra fish might have to do with this.