Proposal for grid computing for nuclear applications

Journal Article · Wed Feb 12 00:00:00 EST 2014 · AIP Conference Proceedings

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4866115· OSTI ID:22266059

Idris, Faridah Mohamad; Ismail, Saaidi; Haris, Mohd Fauzi B.; Sulaiman, Mohamad Safuan B.; Samsudin, Nursuliza Bt.; Ibrahim, Maizura Bt.; Yazid, Hafizal B.; Jamro, Rafhayudi B.; Azman, Azraf B.; Rahman, Anwar B. Abdul; Muhamad, Shalina Bt. Sheik; Hassan, Hasni ^[1]; Ibrahim, Zainol Abidin; Zolkapli, Zukhaimira; Anuar, Afiq Aizuddin; Norjoharuddeen, Nurfikri ^[2]; others, and

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1. Malaysian Nuclear Agency, Bangi, 43000 Kajang, Selangor (Malaysia)
2. Physics Department, University of Malaya, 56003 Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia)

The use of computer clusters for computational sciences including computational physics is vital as it provides computing power to crunch big numbers at a faster rate. In compute intensive applications that requires high resolution such as Monte Carlo simulation, the use of computer clusters in a grid form that supplies computational power to any nodes within the grid that needs computing power, has now become a necessity. In this paper, we described how the clusters running on a specific application could use resources within the grid, to run the applications to speed up the computing process.

• OSTI ID: 22266059
• Journal Information: AIP Conference Proceedings, Vol. 1584, Issue 1; Conference: iNuSTEC2013: International nuclear science, technology and engineering conference 2013, Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia), 30 Sep - 2 Oct 2013; Other Information: (c) 2014 AIP Publishing LLC; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); ISSN 0094-243X
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

97 MATHEMATICAL METHODS AND COMPUTING
COMPUTERIZED SIMULATION
GRIDS
MONTE CARLO METHOD
PROPOSALS