<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p> GEANT4 is the basic software for fast and precise simulation of particle interactions with matter. Along the way towards enabling the execution of GEANT4 based simulations on hybrid High Performance Computing (HPC) architectures with large clusters of Intel Xeon Phi co-processors, we study the performance of this software suit on the supercomputer system Avitohol@BAS, Some practical scripts are collected in the supplementary material shown in the appendix.</p></abstract>

GEANT4 is the basic software for fast and precise simulation of particle interactions with matter. Along the way towards enabling the execution of GEANT4 based simulations on hybrid High Performance Computing (HPC) architectures with large clusters of Intel Xeon Phi co-processors, we study the performance of this software suit on the supercomputer system Avitohol@BAS, Some practical scripts are collected in the supplementary material shown in the appendix.

On the Use of Large Intel Xeon Phi Clusters for GEANT4-Based Simulations

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GEANT4 is the basic software for fast and precise simulation of particle interactions with matter. Along the way towards enabling the execution of GEANT4 based...

On the Use of Large Intel Xeon Phi Clusters for GEANT4-Based Simulations

Article Category: Special Issue With Selected Papers From The Workshop “Two Years Avitohol: Advanced High Performance Computing Applications 2017

Published Online: Jan 16, 2018

Page range: 101 - 109

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/cait-2017-0059

Keywords
Co-processors, multithreading, acceleration, hybrid architecture, particle-matter interactions, simulations

© by Nevena Ilieva

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

On the Use of Large Intel Xeon Phi Clusters for GEANT4-Based Simulations

Article Category: Special Issue With Selected Papers From The Workshop “Two Years Avitohol: Advanced High Performance Computing Applications 2017

Published Online: Jan 16, 2018

Page range: 101 - 109

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/cait-2017-0059

KeywordsCo-processors, multithreading, acceleration, hybrid architecture, particle-matter interactions, simulations

© by Nevena Ilieva

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Keywords
Co-processors, multithreading, acceleration, hybrid architecture, particle-matter interactions, simulations