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The parallelisation of the AEA probabilistic safety assessment program, MASCOT

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High-Performance Computing and Networking (HPCN-Europe 1994)

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Abstract

The AEA Technology Monte Carlo probabilistic safety assessment program Mascot has been parallelised using portable library constructs. The serial code ran on a Cray-YMP supercomputer, but is inherently unable to make use of its vector facilities, although it is amenable to a Task-farm approach. Results are presented comparing the parallelised code running on a heterogeneous mix of workstations in Harwell with their Cray-YMP. In addition, good scaling behaviour is demonstrated on a dedicated distributed memory machine.

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  1. Edinburgh Parallel Computing Centre, James Clerk Maxwell Building, King's Buildings, Mayfield Road, EH9-3JZ, Edinburgh, UK

    H W Yau

  2. Radwaste Disposal Division, Decommissioning and Waste Management Business, AEA Technology, 424.4 Harwell, OX11-ORA, Didcot, Oxfordshire, UK

    K A Cliffe, J E Sinclair & P J Sumner

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  1. H W Yau
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Yau, H.W., Cliffe, K.A., Sinclair, J.E., Sumner, P.J. (1994). The parallelisation of the AEA probabilistic safety assessment program, MASCOT. In: Gentzsch, W., Harms, U. (eds) High-Performance Computing and Networking. HPCN-Europe 1994. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 796. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0020397

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