Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Scientific paper
2000-01-15
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
To appear in the Proceedings of the International Conference on Computing in High Energy and Nuclear Physics, CHEP2000, Padova
Scientific paper
We describe a scalable parallelization of Geant4 using commodity hardware in a collaborative effort between the College of Computer Science and the Department of Physics at Northeastern University. The system consists of a Beowulf cluster of 32 Pentium II processors with 128 MBytes of memory each, connected via ATM and fast Ethernet. The bulk of the parallelization is done using TOP-C (Task Oriented Parallel C), software widely used in the computational algebra community. TOP-C provides a flexible and powerful framework for parallel algorithm development, is easy to learn, and is available at no cost. Its task oriented nature allows one to parallelize legacy code while hiding the details of interprocess communications. Applications include fast interactive simulation of computationally intensive processes such as electromagnetic showers. General results motivate wider applications of TOP-C to other simulation problems as well as to pattern recognition in high energy physics.
Anchordoqui Luis
Cooperman Gene
Grinberg Victor
McCauley Thomas
Reucroft Stephen
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