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Air shower simulation using {\sc geant4} and commodity parallel computing

Astrophysics 2007-05-23 v2

Abstract

We present an evaluation of a simulated cosmic ray shower, based on {\sc geant4} and {\sc top-c}, which tracks all the particles in the shower. {\sc top-c} (Task Oriented Parallel C) provides a framework for parallel algorithm development which makes tractable the problem of following each particle. This method is compared with a simulation program which employs the Hillas thinning algorithm.

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@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0006141,
  title  = {Air shower simulation using {\sc geant4} and commodity parallel computing},
  author = {L. A. Anchordoqui and G. Cooperman and V. Grinberg and T. P. McCauley and T. Paul and S. Reucroft and J. D. Swain and G. Alverson},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0006141},
  year   = {2007}
}

Comments

Improvements on the simulations, Fig. 2 slightly changed