R&D on accelerators in Simulations - Bring your ideas

Wednesday 10 Jun 2020, 16:00 → 18:05 Europe/Zurich

• ​​​​​​Lightning (~5 minutes) talks with ideas on possible ways of using GPUs in HEP simulation

• Each one followed by a discussion

Meeting Live Notes

1 Introduction

Speaker: Gloria Corti (CERN)

Intro

2 Prototyping simulation workflows on GPUs - an exploration phase

Speaker: Andrei Gheata (CERN)

Prototyping simulation workflows on GPUs.pdf

3 Discussion

4 Pre-learning geometry on GPUs

Speakers: Doug Benjamin (Argonne National Laboratory (US)), Evangelos Kourlitis (Argonne National Laboratory (US)), Walter Hopkins (Argonne National Laboratory (US))

Kourlitis_ML4G4_10Jun20.pdf

5 Discussion

6 EM physics with CUDA/portable APIs in the Excalibur-HEP project

Speaker: Benjamin Morgan (University of Warwick (GB))

ExcaliburHEPEMCuda.pdf

7 Discussion

8 e/γ calorimeter simulation using native GPU navigation libraries & shaders: a feasibility study

Speaker: John Apostolakis (CERN)

Towards-efficient-eg-detailed-sim-using-GPU-ray-tracking.pdf

9 Discussion