Parallelizing the XSTAR Photoionization Code

Details Parallelizing the XSTAR Photoionization Code Parallelizing the XSTAR Photoionization Code

2009-01-12

arxiv.org/abs/0901.1582v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics

ADASS 2008 (Quebec) proceedings (4 pages, 1 figure)

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We describe two means by which XSTAR, a code which computes physical conditions and emission spectra of photoionized gases, has been parallelized. The first is pvm_xstar, a wrapper which can be used in place of the serial xstar2xspec script to foster concurrent execution of the XSTAR command line application on independent sets of parameters. The second is PModel, a plugin for the Interactive Spectral Interpretation System (ISIS) which allows arbitrary components of a broad range of astrophysical models to be distributed across processors during fitting and confidence limits calculations, by scientists with little training in parallel programming. Plugging the XSTAR family of analytic models into PModel enables multiple ionization states (e.g., of a complex absorber/emitter) to be computed simultaneously, alleviating the often prohibitive expense of the traditional serial approach. Initial performance results indicate that these methods substantially enlarge the problem space to which XSTAR may be applied within practical timeframes.

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