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Parallel Approaches for Particle-Based Simulation of Charge Transport in Semiconductors

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The aim of this contribution is to discuss possible algorithmic choices and hardware configurations for the implementation of efficient particle-based simulation programs. By using a population decomposition scheme, we modified the scalar version of the algorithm in order to improve the efficiency of our hybrid particle-based simulation engine. Using a Beowulf-class computer cluster, we measured parallel speed-up with different algorithmic configurations, and related it to the inter-process communication hardware.

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Saraniti, M., Tang, J., Goodnick, S. et al. Parallel Approaches for Particle-Based Simulation of Charge Transport in Semiconductors. Journal of Computational Electronics 1, 215–218 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1020777508605

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