Description
The Geant4 simulation toolkit is now in the 14th year of its production phase. It is the simulation engine choice of most current and near future HEP experiments. Geant4 is still evolving with continuous developments aiming at improving its physics quality and
computational speed and at enriching its functionalities. But Geant4 was designed within the computing paradigm of the 90s’ and must face the major challenge of the evolution and adaptation to the new hardware technologies while still maintaining its usability to the wide
user community. The Geant4 Collaboration has identified several options and possibilities. It has accommodated some of these by providing a multi-threading version based on event-level parallelism. This version, distributed as a prototype today, will become the main distributed
product from the next major release, in 2013. In this contribution we discuss the Geant4 Collaboration development strategy for the coming years.
Primary author
Dr
Marc Verderi
(Ecole Polytechnique (FR))