R&D on accelerators in Simulations - Bring your ideas

Name: R&D on accelerators in Simulations - Bring your ideas
Start: 2020-06-10T16:00:00+02:00
End: 2020-06-10T18:05:00+02:00
Location: No location set

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

Description

Lightning (~5 minutes) talks with ideas on possible ways of using GPUs in HEP simulation
Each one followed by a discussion

- 16:00 → 16:05
  
  Introduction 5m
  
  Speaker: Gloria Corti (CERN)
  
  Intro
- 16:05 → 16:10
  
  Prototyping simulation workflows on GPUs - an exploration phase 5m
  
  Speaker: Andrei Gheata (CERN)
  
  Prototyping simulation workflows on GPUs.pdf
- 16:10 → 16:25
  
  Discussion 15m
- 16:25 → 16:30
  
  Pre-learning geometry on GPUs 5m
  
  Speakers: Doug Benjamin (Argonne National Laboratory (US)), Evangelos Kourlitis (Argonne National Laboratory (US)), Walter Hopkins (Argonne National Laboratory (US))
  
  Kourlitis_ML4G4_10Jun20.pdf
- 16:30 → 16:45
  
  Discussion 15m
- 16:45 → 16:50
  
  EM physics with CUDA/portable APIs in the Excalibur-HEP project 5m
  
  Speaker: Benjamin Morgan (University of Warwick (GB))
  
  ExcaliburHEPEMCuda.pdf
- 16:50 → 17:05
  
  Discussion 15m
- 17:05 → 17:10
  
  e/γ calorimeter simulation using native GPU navigation libraries & shaders: a feasibility study 5m
  
  Speaker: John Apostolakis (CERN)
  
  Towards-efficient-eg-detailed-sim-using-GPU-ray-tracking.pdf
- 17:10 → 17:25
  
  Discussion 15m