BORIS – Micromagnetic, Spin Transport and Multiscale Atomistic Software for Modelling Magnetic Information Storage

Serban Lepadatu

doi:10.59973/ipil.43

Authors

Serban Lepadatu University of Central Lancashire

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.59973/ipil.43

Keywords:

BORIS; , Atomistic modelling of magnetic information storage;, Skyrmions; , Multi-GPU computations;

Abstract

A brief review of BORIS is given here, together with a review of recent works using this software, including applications to modelling magnetic hard-disk-drive read heads, ultrafast magnetization processes, computation of thermodynamic equilibrium states using Monte Carlo algorithms, and modelling skyrmions as information carriers. BORIS is a state-of-the-art multi-physics and multi-scale research software designed to solve three-dimensional magnetization dynamics problems, coupled with a self-consistent charge and spin transport solver, heat flow solver with temperature-dependent material parameters, and elastodynamics solver including thermoelastic and magnetoelastic/magnetostriction effects, in arbitrary multi-layered structures and shapes. Both micromagnetic and atomistic models are implemented, also allowing multi-scale modelling where computational spaces may be configured with multiple simultaneous micromagnetic and atomistic discretization regions. The software allows multi-GPU computations on any number of GPUs in parallel, in order to accelerate simulations and allow for larger problem sizes compared to single-GPU computations – this is the first magnetization dynamics software to allow multi-GPU computations, enabling large problems encompassing billions of cells to be simulated with unprecedented performance.

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