Petascale plasma physics simulations have recently entered the regime of simulating
trillions of particles. These unprecedented simulations generate massive amounts of data,
posing significant challenges in storage, analysis, and visualization. In this paper, we
present parallel I/O, analysis, and visualization results from a VPIC trillion particle simulation
running on 120,000 cores, which produces~ 30TB of data for a single timestep. We
demonstrate the successful application of H5Part, a particle data extension of parallel HDF5 …

Petascale plasma physics simulations have recently entered the regime of simulating
trillions of particles. These unprecedented simulations generate massive amounts of data,
posing significant challenges in storage, analysis, and visualization. In this paper, we
present parallel I/O, analysis, and visualization results from a VPIC trillion particle simulation
running on 120,000 cores, which produces∼ 30TB of data for a single timestep. We
demonstrate the successful application of H5Part, a particle data extension of parallel HDF5 …