Domain Decomposition of a Constructive Solid Geometry Monte Carlo Transport Code
Abstract
Domain decomposition has been implemented in a Constructive Solid Geometry (CSG) Monte Carlo neutron transport code. Previous methods to parallelize a CSG code relied entirely on particle parallelism; but in our approach we distribute the geometry as well as the particles across processors. This enables calculations whose geometric description is larger than what could fit in memory of a single processor, thus it must be distributed across processors. In addition to enabling very large calculations, we show that domain decomposition can speed up calculations compared to particle parallelism alone. We also show results of a calculation of the proposed Laser Inertial-Confinement Fusion-Fission Energy (LIFE) facility, which has 5.6 million CSG parts.
- Authors:
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- Lawrence Livermore National Lab. (LLNL), Livermore, CA (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE
- OSTI Identifier:
- 952428
- Report Number(s):
- LLNL-CONF-409739
TRN: US200913%%562
- DOE Contract Number:
- W-7405-ENG-48
- Resource Type:
- Conference
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: Presented at: 2009 International Conference on Advances in Mathematics, Computational Methods, and Reactor Physics, Saratoga Springs, NY, United States, May 03 - May 07, 2009
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 73 NUCLEAR PHYSICS AND RADIATION PHYSICS; 29 ENERGY PLANNING, POLICY AND ECONOMY; 99 GENERAL AND MISCELLANEOUS; GEOMETRY; INERTIAL CONFINEMENT; LASERS; NEUTRON TRANSPORT; REACTOR PHYSICS; TRANSPORT; VELOCITY
Citation Formats
O'Brien, M J, Joy, K I, Procassini, R J, and Greenman, G M. Domain Decomposition of a Constructive Solid Geometry Monte Carlo Transport Code. United States: N. p., 2008.
Web.
O'Brien, M J, Joy, K I, Procassini, R J, & Greenman, G M. Domain Decomposition of a Constructive Solid Geometry Monte Carlo Transport Code. United States.
O'Brien, M J, Joy, K I, Procassini, R J, and Greenman, G M. 2008.
"Domain Decomposition of a Constructive Solid Geometry Monte Carlo Transport Code". United States. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/952428.
@article{osti_952428,
title = {Domain Decomposition of a Constructive Solid Geometry Monte Carlo Transport Code},
author = {O'Brien, M J and Joy, K I and Procassini, R J and Greenman, G M},
abstractNote = {Domain decomposition has been implemented in a Constructive Solid Geometry (CSG) Monte Carlo neutron transport code. Previous methods to parallelize a CSG code relied entirely on particle parallelism; but in our approach we distribute the geometry as well as the particles across processors. This enables calculations whose geometric description is larger than what could fit in memory of a single processor, thus it must be distributed across processors. In addition to enabling very large calculations, we show that domain decomposition can speed up calculations compared to particle parallelism alone. We also show results of a calculation of the proposed Laser Inertial-Confinement Fusion-Fission Energy (LIFE) facility, which has 5.6 million CSG parts.},
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