EPCC is delighted to be part of a team that has won an. Presented at the International Supercomputing Conference (ISC14) in Leipzig (22-26 June 2014), the awards recognize outstanding application of HPC Computing for Business and Scientific Achievements.

The award recognizes work by David Dickinson from the University of York, myself and Joachim Hein at EPCC, and Colin Roach from Culham Centre for Fusion Energy (CCFE), on the plasma simulation code GS2, where the overall performance of the code has been greatly improved, reducing the runtime by a factor of 20 for large parallel simulations.

GS2 is an open source gyrokinetic simulation code that is extensively used in plasma physics research internationally to study the linear and non-linear dynamics of magnetically-confined plasma in laboratory and astrophysical situations.

More information can be found on the HPC User Forum, which organizes these awards.