Parallel adaptive Monte Carlo integration with the event generator WHIZARD

2018/11/23 by Simon Braß, Wolfgang Kilian, Jürgen Reuter · 26 citations
Computer Science · Mathematics · Physics and Astronomy · #Asynchronous communication #Computational science #Computer science #Discrete event simulation #Distributed and Parallel Computing Systems #Event (particle physics) #Event generator #Generator (circuit theory) #Mathematics #Monte Carlo method #Parallel computing #Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies #Phase space #Physics #Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions #Simulation #hep-ex #hep-ph #physics.comp-ph

paper · pdf · doi:10.1140/epjc/s10052-019-6840-2

published in The European Physical Journal C 79(4) (Springer Science+Business Media) · 28 pages, 4 figures

arxiv created 2018/11/23 · openalex created_date 2018/11/29 · openalex publication_date 2019/04/01 · arxiv updated 2019/04/18 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05

Abstract

We describe a new parallel approach to the evaluation of phase space for Monte-Carlo event generation, implemented within the framework of the Whizard package. The program realizes a twofold self-adaptive multi-channel parameterization of phase space and makes use of the standard OpenMP and MPI protocols for parallelization. The modern MPI3 feature of asynchronous communication is an essential ingredient of the computing model. Parallel numerical evaluation applies both to phase-space integration and to event generation, thus covering computing-intensive parts of physics simulation for a realistic collider environment.

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