Space-charge simulations using parallel algorithms

The evaluation of the space-charge effects on the beam dynamics requires CPU-time intensive numerical simulations. To obtain accurate results it is necessary to consider a distribution of particles an d to track them through the magnetic lattice. To reduce the real time needed by the simulations, a possible solution is to develop parallel algorithms. In this was, the computational burden can be dis tributed over many CPUs thus reducing the time to obtain results. In this paper parallel techniques to simulate space-charge effects are presented ; in particular we investigate the over-all performan ce of the algorithm and its scalability.