High-Performance Beam Simulator for the LANSCE Linac

Conference · Mon May 14 00:00:00 EDT 2012

OSTI ID:1040799

Pang, Xiaoying ^[1]; Rybarcyk, Lawrence J ^[1]; Baily, Scott A ^[1]

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1. Los Alamos National Laboratory

A high performance multiparticle tracking simulator is currently under development at Los Alamos. The heart of the simulator is based upon the beam dynamics simulation algorithms of the PARMILA code, but implemented in C++ on Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) hardware using NVIDIA's CUDA platform. Linac operating set points are provided to the simulator via the EPICS control system so that changes of the real time linac parameters are tracked and the simulation results updated automatically. This simulator will provide valuable insight into the beam dynamics along a linac in pseudo real-time, especially where direct measurements of the beam properties do not exist. Details regarding the approach, benefits and performance are presented.

• Research Organization: Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: DOE/LANL
• DOE Contract Number: AC52-06NA25396
• OSTI ID: 1040799
• Report Number(s): LA-UR-12-21324; TRN: US1202554
• Resource Relation: Conference: IPAC12 ; 2012-05-20 - 2012-05-25 ; New Orleans, Louisiana, United States
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

43 PARTICLE ACCELERATORS
ALGORITHMS
BEAM DYNAMICS
CONTROL SYSTEMS
LINEAR ACCELERATORS
PERFORMANCE
PROCESSING
SIMULATION
SIMULATORS