https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/202125103030
Novel features and GPU performance analysis for EM particle transport in the Celeritas code
1 Oak Ridge National Laboratory
2 Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
3 Argonne National Laboratory
4 Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
* e-mail: johnsonsr@ornl.gov
Published online: 23 August 2021
Celeritas is a new computational transport code designed for high-performance simulation of high-energy physics detectors. This work describes some of its current capabilities and the design choices that enable the rapid development of efficient on-device physics. The abstractions that underpin the code design facilitate low-level performance tweaks that require no changes to the higher-level physics code. We evaluate a set of independent changes that together yield an almost 40% speedup over the original GPU code for a net performance increase of 220× for a single GPU over a single CPU running 8.4M tracks on a small demonstration physics app.
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