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在高性能计算机上驱动日冕MHD模拟

Driving solar coronal MHD simulations on high-performance computers

Philippe-A. Bourdin

摘要:

当今研究的质量通常严格限制于代码对许多处理器的可用计算能力和可扩展性。例如,解决太阳日冕的加热问题需要对等离子体动力学和磁场进行最真实的描述。数值求解太阳上小活动区域(AR)的磁流体动力学(MHD)描述需要在当前高性能计算(HPC)硬件上进行数百万小时的计算。这项工作的目的是描述边界条件和数据输入/输出(IO)策略的有效并行化方法,这些策略允许更好地扩展到数千个处理器(CPU)。在优化之前和之后对MHD代码进行测试,以比较AR上方的冠状MHD模型的性能和可扩展性。我们提出了一个新的边界条件,非垂直磁场在光球,我们接近现实的压力增加光球以下。这样,磁通量束随着深度而变窄,并且磁通密度相应地增加。通过HPC友好的边界条件和IO策略,可扩展性提高了一个数量级以上。这项工作还描述了必要的推动方法,以驱动MHD模型与观测到的磁场从太阳的光球。此外,我们提出了高层和低层大气边界条件(光球和朝向外日冕),包括沼泽层,以减少扰动之前,他们到达边界。总而言之,这些方法能够比以前的模型更真实地模拟AR上方的日冕加热问题-仅仅是因为能够有效地并行使用大量CPU。

英文摘要:

The quality of today's research is often tightly limited to the available computing power and scalability of codes to many processors. For example, tackling the problem of heating the solar corona requires a most realistic description of the plasma dynamics and the magnetic field. Numerically solving such a magneto-hydrodynamical (MHD) description of a small active region (AR) on the Sun requires millions of computation hours on current high-performance computing (HPC) hardware. The aim of this work is to describe methods for an efficient parallelization of boundary conditions and data input/output (IO) strategies that allow for a better scaling towards thousands of processors (CPUs). The Pencil Code is tested before and after optimization to compare the performance and scalability of a coronal MHD model above an AR. We present a novel boundary condition for non-vertical magnetic fields in the photosphere, where we approach the realistic pressure increase below the photosphere. With that, magnetic flux bundles become narrower with depth and the flux density increases accordingly. The scalability is improved by more than one order of magnitude through the HPC-friendly boundary conditions and IO strategies. This work describes also the necessary nudging methods to drive the MHD model with observed magnetic fields from the Sun's photosphere. In addition, we present the upper and lower atmospheric boundary conditions (photospheric and towards the outer corona), including swamp layers to diminish perturbations before they reach the boundaries. Altogether, these methods enable more realistic 3D MHD simulations than previous models regarding the coronal heating problem above an AR -- simply because of the ability to use a large amount of CPUs efficiently in parallel.

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