Adapting the serial Alpgen event generator to simulate LHC collisions on millions of parallel threads
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2017-01-11 v1 Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing
Computational Physics
Abstract
As the LHC moves to higher energies and luminosity, the demand for computing resources increases accordingly and will soon outpace the growth of the Worldwide LHC Computing Grid. To meet this greater demand, event generation Monte Carlo was targeted for adaptation to run on Mira, the supercomputer at the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility. Alpgen is a Monte Carlo event generation application that is used by LHC experiments in the simulation of collisions that take place in the Large Hadron Collider. This paper details the process by which Alpgen was adapted from a single-processor serial-application to a large-scale parallel-application and the performance that was achieved.
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@article{arxiv.1511.07312,
title = {Adapting the serial Alpgen event generator to simulate LHC collisions on millions of parallel threads},
author = {J. T. Childers and T. D. Uram and T. J. LeCompte and M. E. Papka and D. P. Benjamin},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1511.07312},
year = {2017}
}
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13 pages, 7 figures, publication