GPU porting of ASCOT5 code for Monte Carlo simulations in fusion plasmas
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Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion, Volume 67, issue 10
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We present the graphics processing unit (GPU) porting of a Monte Carlo particle-following code, called ASCOT5. The code solves the distribution function of minority species in fusion plasmas. Originally developed with an MPI-OpenMP hybrid parallelism taking full advantage of single instruction, multiple data operations, the code has been ported to GPU architecture using the OpenACC programming model. Subsequently, modifications were made to implement three distinct algorithmic strategies: history-based, event-based, and event-based-packing. In the first implementation, each GPU processing unit deals with the entire history of one or more particles, while the event-based algorithm operates on the principle of executing a single low-level event type at a time for all particles still alive (with or without packing particles). Performance results on NVIDIA GPUs are presented to showcase the effectiveness and efficiency of the code adaptations for GPU execution. These results provide insights into the comparative performance of the implemented approaches on the specified hardware architecture. Portability across other architectures such as INTEL and AMD GPUs with OpenMP Offload is also presented.Description
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Peybernes, M, Fourestey, G, Äkäslompolo, S, Särkimäki, K & Spiga, F 2025, 'GPU porting of ASCOT5 code for Monte Carlo simulations in fusion plasmas', Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion, vol. 67, no. 10, 105020. https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6587/ae0bf3