Speaker
Andrei Gheata
(CERN)
Description
Concurrency became lately a valuing goal for HEP software for performing better on modern computer architectures. Speeding up the simulation of particle transport is a major R&D objective to cope with the foreseen increase in luminosity for the LHC by 2018. Features like track-level parallelism and vectorization are important levers to move towards high-performance particle transport. The geometry navigation engine behind has to follow in all aspects the upgrades of the transport package in terms of: concurrency, vectorisation and fine grain work provisions to be dispatched to co-processors like GPGPU or MIC.
The talk will cover the changes already available in TGeo to deal with concurrency, as well as the development plans along this line.
Author
Andrei Gheata
(CERN)
