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A Distributed Application for Monte Carlo Simulations

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Advanced Environments, Tools, and Applications for Cluster Computing (IWCC 2001)

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Abstract

The present paper implements a cluster of workstation (COW) structure and also an application that will demonstrate the advantages and benefits of such a structure. The application is a message - passing - based parallel program, which simulates in parallel the propagation of photons through various environments. The simulation is based on the Monte Carlo principle of ‘throwing the dice’. Performance of both the application and the communication structure is evaluated by using parallel profiling tools.

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  1. Faculty of Computers and Automatics Computer Science Dept., Polytechnic University of Bucharest, Romania

    Nicolae Tapus, Mihai Burcea & Vlad Staicu

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  1. Computer Science Department, University College Cork, College Road, Cork, Ireland

    Dan Grigoras

  2. Information and Computer Science Department, University of California, 444 Computer Science Building, Irvine, CA, 92697-3425, USA

    Alex Nicolau

  3. Laboratoire d’Informatique Fondamentale de Lille (LIFL), University Lille 1, 59655, Villeneuve d’Ascq, France

    Bernard Toursel

  4. LIP, University Paris 6, 8, rue du Capitaine Scott, 75015, Paris, France

    Bertil Folliot

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Tapus, N., Burcea, M., Staicu, V. (2002). A Distributed Application for Monte Carlo Simulations. In: Grigoras, D., Nicolau, A., Toursel, B., Folliot, B. (eds) Advanced Environments, Tools, and Applications for Cluster Computing. IWCC 2001. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2326. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-47840-X_22

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