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Parallelization of a Monte Carlo Simulation for a Space Cosmic Particles Detector

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Work in progress in the design of a parallel simulation of a multipurpose cosmic rays detector is presented. The detector is part of an experiment whose main goal is to study the spectrum and composition of charged cosmic rays with unprecedent sensibility.

A sequential version of the simulator based on Monte Carlo method is currently available, but it is ineffective for the study of large samples of moderately high charged particles. Parallelism seems to be the most suitable approach to increase its performance.

Driven by different reasons we have decided to take the sequential code as a starting point instead of producing a parallel version from scratch. In this work we present the preliminary computational results that we have obtained for our first prototype of the parallel MPI master-slave simulator on a PC cluster platform.

This work has been partially supported by the EC (FEDER) and the Spanish MCyT (Plan Nacional de I+D+I, TIC2002-04498-C05-05 and TIC2002-04400-C03-03).

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  1. Depto. de Estadística, Investigación Operativa y Computación, Univ. de La Laguna, 38271, La Laguna, Spain

    Francisco Almeida & Francisco de Sande

  2. Departamento de Astrofísica, Univ. de La Laguna, 38206, La Laguna, Spain

    Ramón J. García López

  3. Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), 38205, La Laguna, Spain

    Carlos Delgado & Ramón J. García López

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  1. GUP, Institute of Graphics and Parallel Processing, Johannes Kepler University, Altenbergerstraße 69, A-4040, Linz, Austria

    Dieter Kranzlmüller

  2. MTA SZTAKI, Computer and Automation Research Institute, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, P.O. Box 63, H-1518, Hungary

    Péter Kacsuk

  3. Computer Science Department, University of Tennessee, TN 37996-3450, Knoxville, USA

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Almeida, F., Delgado, C., López, R.J.G., de Sande, F. (2004). Parallelization of a Monte Carlo Simulation for a Space Cosmic Particles Detector. In: Kranzlmüller, D., Kacsuk, P., Dongarra, J. (eds) Recent Advances in Parallel Virtual Machine and Message Passing Interface. EuroPVM/MPI 2004. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3241. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-30218-6_57

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