P3D:
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The massively parallel plasma simulation code P3D is a
powerful tool for exploring the nonlinear dyanmics of 3-D plasma
systems. It can be run as a full particle (particle electrons and
ions), hybrid (particle ions and fluid, finite-mass electrons) or as a
Hall MHD model. In the particle mode it solves the complete Maxwell
equations and the equations of motion for the individual particles in
two and three dimensions. The code has 3-D domain decomposition and
communication between adjacent subdomains is implemented using MPI
routines. The code routinely runs up to the limit of the available
resources on parallel machines with 1 billion particles. The
code has been operating in production mode for over a year on the 3-D
reconnection problem.
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