Speakers
Dr
John Apostolakis
(CERN)
Xin Dong
(Northeastern University)
Description
We report on the progress of the multi-core versions of Geant4, including multi-process and multi-threaded Geant4.
The performance of the multi-threaded version of Geant4 has been measured, identifying an overhead compared with the sequential version of 20-30%. We explain the reasons, and the improvements introduced to reduce this overhead.
In addition we have improved the design of a few key classes of Geant4 were revised in order to simplify the design and improve the implementation of multi-threaded and reduce the memory footprint of multi-process Geant4.
The process for adapting user applications to Geant4 multi-threaded has been documented and streamlined. Most applications can be adapted within 1-2 working days. Tools to verify that the results of a multi-threaded application are exactly equal to the sequential version are under development.
In addition we present an overview of the test coverage undertaken to ensure that the Geant4 multi-threaded are fully compatible with the sequential version.
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Primary author
Xin Dong
(Northeastern University)
Co-authors
Andrzej Nowak
(CERN)
Gene Cooperman
(Unknown)
Dr
John Apostolakis
(CERN)
Makoto Asai
(SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US))
Mr
Sverre Jarp
(CERN)
