Parallel I/O measurements on a SparcCenter and a MEIKO CS2
Description
CERN is participating in a European ESPRIT project (GPMIMD2) to investigate the benefits and future prospects of parallel processing to HEP computing. One of the focal points at CERN is the parallelization of the Monte-Carlo program from the NA48 experiment. This experiment aims to measure the CP-Violation parameters in the neutral kaon system to a very high precision starting in 1996. The Monte-Carlo program (NMC) from the NA48 collaboration consists of 102 subroutines with 17500 lines of FORTRAN code. It simulates the decay of neutral kaons into charged/neutral pions in their detector setup. Their main detector is a liquid krypton calorimeter with about 13000 channels. As the shower simulation of photons and pions in this detector take a long time per event (GEANT), the NMC uses a lookup table (showerlibrary) of previously generated showers
Additional details
Publishing Information
- Imprint Title
- Proceedings of the conference on computing in high energy physics '94
- Imprint Pagination
- 532 p.
- Journal Page Range
- p. 169-170.
- Report number
- LBL--35822
Conference
- Title
- Meeting on computing in high-energy physics.
- Dates
- 21-27 Apr 1994.
- Place
- San Francisco, CA (United States).
INIS
- Country of Publication
- United States
- Country of Input or Organization
- United States
- INIS RN
- 26063838
- Subject category
- S46: INSTRUMENTATION RELATED TO NUCLEAR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY; S43: PARTICLE ACCELERATORS; S99: GENERAL AND MISCELLANEOUS;
- Resource subtype / Literary indicator
- Conference
- Descriptors DEI
- CERN; COMPARATIVE EVALUATIONS; COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; COMPUTERIZED SIMULATION; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PARALLEL PROCESSING; RADIATION DETECTORS
- Descriptors DEC
- CALCULATION METHODS; EVALUATION; INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS; MEASURING INSTRUMENTS; PROGRAMMING; SIMULATION
Optional Information
- Secondary number(s)
- CONF-940492--.