Journal
CONCURRENCY AND COMPUTATION-PRACTICE & EXPERIENCE
Volume 32, Issue 11, Pages -Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/cpe.5640
Keywords
CUDA; Kokkos; OpenACC; OpenMP; particle in cell; performance portability; RAJA
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This paper reports on an in-depth evaluation of the performance portability frameworks Kokkos and RAJA with respect to their suitability for the implementation of complex particle-in-cell (PIC) simulation codes, extending previous studies based on codes from other domains. At the example of a particle-in-cell model, we implemented the hotspot of the code in C++ and parallelized it using OpenMP, OpenACC, CUDA, Kokkos, and RAJA, targeting multi-core (CPU) and graphics (GPU) processors. Both Kokkos and RAJA appear mature, are usable for complex codes, and keep their promise to provide performance portability across different architectures. Comparing the obtainable performance on state-of-the art hardware, but also considering aspects such as code complexity, feature availability, and overall productivity, we finally draw the conclusion that the Kokkos framework would be suited best to tackle the massively parallel implementation of the full PIC model.
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