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Parallelization of Geant4 Using TOP-C and Marshalgen
Cambridge, Massachusetts July 24-July 26
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Gene Cooperman, Northeastern University, USA
Viet Ha Nguyen, Northeastern University, USA
Igor Malioutov, Northeastern University, USA
Geant4 is a very large, highly accurate toolkit for Monte Carlo simulation of particle-matter interaction. It has been applied to high-energy physics, cosmic ray modeling, radiation shields, radiation therapy, mine detection, and other areas. Geant4 is being used to help design some high energy physics experiments (notably CMS and Atlas) to be run on the future large hadron collider: the largest particle collider in the world. The parallelization, ParGeant4, represents a challenge due to the unique characteristics of Geant4: (i) complex object-oriented design; (ii) intrinsic use of templates and abstract classes to be instantiated later by the end user; (iii) large program with many developers; and (iv) frequent releases. The key issue for parallelization is not just how to parallelize "correctly" but also how to parallelize "with minimum effort". In addition, the parallelization should make as few assumptions about the source code as possible, due to the frequent release schedule of Geant4. We use TOP-C (Task Oriented Parallel C/C++) for parallelization and Marshalgen for marshaling/ serialization. In some examples on a cluster of 100 nodes yielded a speedup of up to 94.4. The code?s portability, scalability and performance are also discussed.
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Gene Cooperman, Viet Ha Nguyen, Igor Malioutov, "Parallelization of Geant4 Using TOP-C and Marshalgen," nca, pp.48-55, Fifth IEEE International Symposium on Network Computing and Applications (NCA'06), 2006
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