| Issue |
EPJ Web Conf.
Volume 245, 2020
24th International Conference on Computing in High Energy and Nuclear Physics (CHEP 2019)
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| Article Number | 09015 | |
| Number of page(s) | 7 | |
| Section | 9 - Exascale Science | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/202024509015 | |
| Published online | 16 November 2020 | |
https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/202024509015
Geant Exascale Pilot Project
1
Fermi National Laboratory, Batavia, IL, USA
2
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, USA
3
Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, USA
* Corresponding author: pcanal@fnal.gov
Published online: 16 November 2020
The upcoming generation of exascale HPC machines will all have most of their computing power provided by GPGPU accelerators. In order to be able to take advantage of this class of machines for HEP Monte Carlo simulations, we started to develop a Geant pilot application as a collaboration between HEP and the Exascale Computing Project. We will use this pilot to study and characterize how the machines’ architecture affects performance. The pilot will encapsulate the minimum set of physics and software framework processes necessary to describe a representative HEP simulation problem. The pilot will then be used to exercise communication, computation, and data access patterns. The project’s main objective is to identify re-engineering opportunities that will increase event throughput by improving single node performance and being able to make efficient use of the next generation of accelerators available in Exascale facilities.
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