Parallelizing the MARS15 Code with MPI for shielding applications

Conference · Wed May 12 00:00:00 EDT 2004

OSTI ID:823667

Mikhail A. Kostin and Nikolai V. Mokhov

The MARS15 Monte Carlo code capabilities to deal with time-consuming deep penetration shielding problems and other computationally tough tasks in accelerator, detector and shielding applications, have been enhanced by a parallel processing option. It has been developed, implemented and tested on the Fermilab Accelerator Division Linux cluster and network of Sun workstations. The code uses MPI. It is scalable and demonstrates good performance. The general architecture of the code, specific uses of message passing, and effects of a scheduling on the performance and fault tolerance are described.

• Research Organization: Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (FNAL), Batavia, IL (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE Office of Energy Research (ER) (US)
• DOE Contract Number: AC02-76CH03000
• OSTI ID: 823667
• Report Number(s): FERMILAB-Conf-04/054-AD; TRN: US0401796
• Resource Relation: Conference: 10th International Conference on Radiation Shielding (ICRS-10), Funchal, Madeira (PT), 05/09/2004--05/10/2004; Other Information: PBD: 12 May 2004
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

43 PARTICLE ACCELERATORS
ARCHITECTURE
FERMILAB ACCELERATOR
PARALLEL PROCESSING
PERFORMANCE
RADIATIONS
SHIELDING
TOLERANCE