| Issue |
EPJ Web Conf.
Volume 251, 2021
25th International Conference on Computing in High Energy and Nuclear Physics (CHEP 2021)
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| Article Number | 03005 | |
| Number of page(s) | 8 | |
| Section | Offline Computing | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/202125103005 | |
| Published online | 23 August 2021 | |
https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/202125103005
Studies of GEANT4 performance for different ATLAS detector geometries and code compilation methods
1 Lund University, Department of Physics, Box 118, SE - 221 00 Lund, Sweden
2 University of Warwick, Department of Physics, Gibbet Hill Road, Coventry CV4 7AL, UK
3 CERN, 1211 Geneva CH
* e-mail: caterina.marcon@hep.lu.se
** e-mail: einar.elen@nuclear.lu.se
*** e-mail: oxana.smirnova@hep.lu.se
Published online: 23 August 2021
Full detector simulation is known to consume a large proportion of computing resources available to the LHC experiments, and reducing time consumed by simulation will allow for more profound physics studies. There are many avenues to exploit, and in this work we investigate those that do not require changes in the GEANT4 simulation suite. In this study, several factors affecting the full GEANT4 simulation execution time are investigated. A broad range of configurations has been tested to ensure consistency of physical results. The effect of a single dynamic library GEANT4 build type has been investigated and the impact of different primary particles at different energies has been evaluated using GDML and GeoModel geometries. Some configurations have an impact on the physics results and are, therefore, excluded from further analysis. Usage of the single dynamic library is shown to increase execution time and does not represent a viable option for optimization. Lastly, the static build type is confirmed as the most effective method to reduce the simulation execution time.
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