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As the Sun rotates, charged paxticles are thrown out in spiraling streams. These high energetic particles form the solar wind, and may eventually interact with atoms and molecules in the Earth’s ionosphere. Light emissions in various wavelengths may result from these interactions. These emissions constitute natural displays commonly known as the “Aurorae”. They are a direct manifestation of plasma physics representing a natural laboratory for studies on this field. The computational bottleneck in the modeling of these phenomena is the simulation of the trajectories of the solar wind particles in the ionosphere. This paper describes the use of a high performance computing system in conjunction with the Message Passing Interface (MPI) standard to perform these simulations. Along with the description of this application we present experimental results to illustrate performance gains that can be obtained using this approach.
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Baranoski, G.V.G., Rokne, J.G. (2002). Using a HPC System for the Simulation of the Trajectories of Solar Wind Particles in the Ionosphere. In: Dimopoulos, N.J., Li, K.F. (eds) High Performance Computing Systems and Applications. The Kluwer International Series in Engineering and Computer Science, vol 657. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-0849-6_22
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