Plasma particle-in-cell (PIC) codes model the interaction of charged partic
les with the surrounding fields, and they have been implemented on many adv
anced parallel computers. Recently, many PC clusters which consist of inexp
ensive PCs have been developed to do parallel computing, and we also build
such a PC cluster. In this paper, we present the implementation of a parall
el plasma PIC code on our PC cluster using MPI, PGHPF and JavaMPI. (C) 2001
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