Document Type

Conference Paper

Publication Date

2015

Publication Title

Proceedings of the 6th International Particle Accelerator Conference

Pages

42-45

Conference Name

6th International Particle Accelerator Conference (IPAC 2015)

Abstract

Coherent synchrotron radiation (CSR) is an effect of self-interaction of an electron bunch as it traverses a curved path. It can cause a significant emittance degradation and microbunching. We present a new high-performance 2D, particle-in-cell code which uses massively parallel multicore GPU/GPU platforms to alleviate computational bottlenecks. The code formulates the CSR problem from first principles by using the retarded scalar and vector potentials to compute the self-interaction fields. The speedup due to the parallel implementation on GPU/CPU platforms exceeds three orders of magnitude, thereby bringing a previously intractable problem within reach. The accuracy of the code is verified against analytic 1D solutions (rigid bunch).

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Copyright © 2015 by the Author(s)

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Original Publication Citation

Terzić, B., Godunov, A., Arumugam, K., Ranjan, D., & Zubair, M. (2015). High-Performance Simulations of Coherent Synchrotron Radiation on Multicore GPU and CPU Platforms. In Proceedings of the 6th International Particle Accelerator Conference, Richmond, VA, May3-8, 2015 (pp. 42-45).

ORCID

0000-0002-9646-8155 (Terzić), 0000-0002-5787-7845 (Zubair)

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