MCBooster: a library for fast Monte Carlo generation of phase-space decays on massively parallel platforms
High Energy Physics - Experiment
2017-02-21 v1 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Computational Physics
Abstract
MCBooster is a header-only, C++11-compliant library that provides routines to generate and perform calculations on large samples of phase space Monte Carlo events. To achieve superior performance, MCBooster is capable to perform most of its calculations in parallel using CUDA- and OpenMP-enabled devices. MCBooster is built on top of the Thrust library and runs on Linux systems. This contribution summarizes the main features of MCBooster. A basic description of the user interface and some examples of applications are provided, along with measurements of performance in a variety of environments
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@article{arxiv.1702.05712,
title = {MCBooster: a library for fast Monte Carlo generation of phase-space decays on massively parallel platforms},
author = {A. A. Alves and M. D. Sokoloff},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1702.05712},
year = {2017}
}