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CHAPTER 2. TEMPORAL INTEGRATION 31<br />

The computations were performed on a Linux cluster of dual Xeon nodes with 2.8<br />

GHz Intel Xeon processors maintained by the High Peformance and Grid Computing<br />

group at North Carolina State University.<br />

Table 2.1: Sweep In Bias Timing<br />

Nx Nk ROCK4 VODEPK<br />

86 72 2hr10min 2hr17min<br />

128 128 13 hr 48 min 13 hr 45 min<br />

172 144 32 hr 23 min 29 hr 53 min<br />

We see that for the two coarsest grids, the integrators take about the same amount<br />

of time to finish the sweep in bias. At the finest grid, we see that VODEPK is<br />

slightly outperforming ROCK4. The grid Nx = 344, Nk = 288 was also tried, but<br />

after 3 days of computation, ROCK4 had only started on the eighth bias point while<br />

VODEPK had started on the ninth bias point. While this reinforces the idea that<br />

VODEPK can handle the finer grids better than ROCK4, it also emphasizes that<br />

using time-integration methods to understand the physics predicted by the Wigner-<br />

Poisson equations is too expensive. This motivates the alternative method of directly<br />

calculating steady-state solutions to the Wigner-Poisson equations, which is explained<br />

in Chapter 3.

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