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John CaryCEO

14:00: INTRODUCTION TO TECH-X AND VORPAL (J CARY)14:30: INTRODUCING NAUTILUS (P STOLTZ)14:50: SIMULATING MEDICAL PLASMAS USING FDTD (A LIKHANSKII)15:10: COFFEE BREAK15:30: AEROSPACE PLASMAS AND (VORPAL/NAUTILUS CO-SIMULATION) (ALEX LIKHANSKII)16:00: VIZUALISATION TECHNIQUES WITH HDF5 FILES (J SMITH)16:20: CCP CHAMBER SIMULATIONS (P STOLTZ)16:50: CONCLUDING REMARKS (J SMITH)

Jonathan SmithTech-X UK Ltd &Cockcroft-Tech-X Industrial Fellow

WELCOME TO THEICOPS 2012VORPAL WORKSHOP

AND DAVID SMITHE AND MING-CHIEH LIN

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What are the plans for today?

•Show how to get answers using Vorpal•Work with you on various plasma modeling

problems•Get your feedbackIn this introduction:•Overview of Tech-X•Recent additions to Vorpal•Roadmap for Vorpal

With 18 years of experience, Tech-X’s mission is to provide customers with the best computational software and engineering services to enable their breakthroughs in research, development, design, and operations

www.txcorp.com

• High-performance computational software

• High-performance visualization and HPC application front ends

• Enhancing code performance

• Other development including quality and portability

Our partners and collaborators are at the leading edge of science and technology. They represent a broad spectrum of efforts to discover, describe, predict and exploit the complex behaviors of matter and energy.

Partners and Collaborators

Customers and Commercial Partners

We provide our customers with both off-the-shelf and customized solutions addressing their advanced technology needs.

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Tech-X has a history of discovery and recognition

AVS Innovation Award

Department of Energy Visualization Awards

2008

Tech-X UK Ltd wins 2010 knowledge

business of the year

Crab Cavity Visualization

Far reaching discoveries

Laser-Plasma Accelerator

2011

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Vorpal: Past and Future (Road Map)

•OOPIC Pro•5.0 improvements•5.2 improvements•Road Map

6.0 features7.0 features

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OOPIC Pro has reached its end of life

•All OOPIC Pro features will be supported by Vorpal 6.0, which furthermore has a host of other features (3D, better parallelism, more solvers, …)

•Support will have to be at a volunteer basis after December 31, 2012

•XOOPIC remains available

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Vorpal: Plasma and EM modeling framework

• Broad range of plasma, EM and ES models Particle-in-cell, Boltzmann fluid, Euler fluids Cut-cell algorithms for accurate electromagnetics

in complex geometries• Runs on largest-scale parallel supercomputers,

routinely on > 30,000 node concurrently • Extensive implementations of plasma-material

interaction physics Sputtering Secondary emission, Ionization, recombination, nuclear reactions

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Vorpal: Wide range of applications

• Widely used in government, industry and academia (all projects below with involvement of Tech-X personnel)

• High-energy physics: Laser Wakefield Accelerators• Aerospace: Plasma engines, dielectric barrier

discharges• Photonics: Bandgap structures, meta-materials• Surface interaction: Multipactoring, electron cloud

effects• High-Power Microwave: Cavity optimization,

Magnetrons, Gyrotrons• Semiconductor manufacturing: Surface deposition

reactors• Ion sources: Electron cyclotron resonance ion sources • High energy-density physics: laser fusion, inertial

confinement fusion (ICF)

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Vorpal 5.0 (Sep 2011)

• Improved Visualization Environment•Simulations in Cylindrical Coordinates• Improved Framework for Collisions•Electromagnetic Simulations on GPUs • Improved Restart Performance• Improved Documentation•VorpalComposer (VisIT based

visualization)

Composer Toolkit Approach:Customizable Workflow bridges the gap to HPC

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Vorpal 5.2 (March 2012)

• Inclusion of new, improved port macros.•More cylindrical examples• Improvements to particle post-processing•External circuit improvements•Further enhancements to visualization tools.

Improved cylindrical visualizations Improved phase-space plots

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Vorpal 6.0 (expected Aug-Sep 2012)

• Remote control and visualization• Implicit electromagnetics• Improved parallel performance• Modularity• Flexible collision framework to allow

Collisional recombination 1->2 body decay

• Allow user definition of all process rates/cross sections Cross sections Field ionization Secondary electron yield Sputtering

• User definable post analysis

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Vorpal 7.0 (expected Aug-Sep 2013)

• Constructive Solid Geometry• Input file generation

Syntax highlighting Context sensitive help Validation (strong typing) Preview of calculated variables 'Tree view'

• More CAD readers (STEP, SAT)• Space-charge limited emission (Child Langmuir)• Coulomb collisions• Embedded boundary electrostatics• Higher-performing particles

AVX GPU MIC?

• Neutral fluid flow, with fluid heated by the plasma

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We are looking for user input• What do you need?• What can make your life easier?

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