NHSE Software Catalog

TRISTAN - A 3D Relativistic Electromagnetic PIC Code

url

ftp://sdcd.gsfc.nasa.gov/pub/HPCC/ESS/macneice/pic-tristan.tar.Z

author

Oscar Bunerman

author

Oscar Bunerman

abstract

TRISTAN is a relativistic electromagnetic particle-in-cell(PIC) code,
originally written by the late Oscar Buneman. This package contains two
versions of the TRISTAN PIC code, a vectorized fortran77 version which
runs on Cray vector machines, and an MPL version which runs on MasPars.
The MPL version implements a particle migration strategy in which particles
migrate across the MasPar's processor as the simulation proceeds, in order
to ensure that no global router communications are required.

description>

http://sdcd.gsfc.nasa.gov/ESS/exchange/contrib/macneice/pic-tristan.html

reference

http://sdcd.gsfc.nasa.gov/ESS/papers/pic_perform.ps

contact

Peter MacNeice

keywords

particle in cell method; application program

environment

Vectorized Fortran77, Cray; MPL, Maspar

application

magnetosphere simulations