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John Cary CEO

John Cary CEO. Welcome to the ICOPS 2012 Vorpal Workshop. 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 Break

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John Cary CEO

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  1. John CaryCEO Welcome to the ICOPS 2012 Vorpal Workshop 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 Break 15:30: 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) and David Smithe and Ming-Chieh Lin • Jonathan Smith • Tech-X UK Ltd & • Cockcroft-Tech-X Industrial Fellow SIMULATIONS EMPOWERING YOUR INNOVATIONS

  2. What are the plans for today? • Show how to get answers using Vorpal • Work with you on various plasma modeling problems • Get your feedback In this introduction: • Overview of Tech-X • Recent additions to Vorpal • Roadmap for Vorpal SIMULATIONS EMPOWERING YOUR INNOVATIONS

  3. www.txcorp.com 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 • High-performance computational software • High-performance visualization and HPC application front ends • Enhancing code performance • Other development including quality and portability

  4. Partners and Collaborators 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.

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

  6. Tech-X hasa history of discovery and recognition 2008 Crab Cavity Visualization 2011 Far reaching discoveries Tech-X UK Ltd wins 2010 knowledge business of the year Laser-Plasma Accelerator Department of Energy Visualization Awards AVS Innovation Award SIMULATIONS EMPOWERING YOUR INNOVATIONS

  7. Vorpal: Past and Future (Road Map) • OOPIC Pro • 5.0 improvements • 5.2 improvements • Road Map • 6.0 features • 7.0 features SIMULATIONS EMPOWERING YOUR INNOVATIONS

  8. 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 SIMULATIONS EMPOWERING YOUR INNOVATIONS

  9. 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 SIMULATIONS EMPOWERING YOUR INNOVATIONS

  10. 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) SIMULATIONS EMPOWERING YOUR INNOVATIONS

  11. 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) SIMULATIONS EMPOWERING YOUR INNOVATIONS

  12. Composer Toolkit Approach:Customizable Workflow bridges the gap to HPC

  13. 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 SIMULATIONS EMPOWERING YOUR INNOVATIONS

  14. 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 SIMULATIONS EMPOWERING YOUR INNOVATIONS

  15. 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 SIMULATIONS EMPOWERING YOUR INNOVATIONS

  16. We are looking for user input • What do you need? • What can make your life easier? jonathan.smith@txcorp.co.uk Tech-X UK Ltd Daresbury Innovation Centre Sci-Tech Daresbury Keckwick Lane Warrington WA4 4FS +44 (0) 1925 320 210 • sales@txcorp.com • Tech-X Corporation • 5621 Arapahoe Ave. • Boulder, CO 80303 • Tel: +1 303 448 0727 SIMULATIONS EMPOWERING YOUR INNOVATIONS

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