that all makes sense. i'm not talking net power either. i mean there really is absolutely no fusion at this range. if i want wb + fusion i will ultimately have to scale the velocities up to simulate what would happen in a larger machine.ladajo wrote: Am I on crack? Fair enough if so. Just thinking out loud.
for density calculation i'd still have to sort or bin, and i'd rather sort 'cause it's more accurate. and i'd rather sort on the gpu because it's faster and it eliminates the pci bus memory transfer bottleneck.
for statistics i'd have to add it up per particle, that's the biggest trouble. but in that i'd just do a parallel reduction and that's really no biggie. so i'm going to do that first, for things that don't require density, which means unfortunately not the total system fusion rate.
it all depends on electron confinement time per unit energy input anyways, so the electron loss rate and electron loss energy are the most important stats to get out, imho. and once i have those i can do a real quantitative comparison of diffierent configs and parameters, rather than just visualizations.
that makes it a priority.