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

Ilieva, Nevena; Lilkova, Elena; Litov, Leandar; Pavlov, Borislav; Petkov, Peicho

doi:10.1515/cait-2017-0059

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

Cybernetics and Information Technologies

Volume 17 (2017): Issue 5 (December 2017)

By: Nevena Ilieva, Elena Lilkova, Leandar Litov, Borislav Pavlov and Peicho Petkov

Open Access

|Jan 2018

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.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/cait-2017-0059 | Journal eISSN: 1314-4081 | Journal ISSN: 1311-9702

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Language: English

Page range: 101 - 109

Published on: Jan 16, 2018

Published by: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Institute of Information and Communication Technologies

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Publication frequency: 4 issues per year

Keywords:

particle-matter interactions,

simulations

Related subjects:

Computer sciences,

Information technology

© 2018 Nevena Ilieva, Elena Lilkova, Leandar Litov, Borislav Pavlov, Peicho Petkov, published by Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Institute of Information and Communication Technologies
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