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A New Parallel Processing Scheme Enabling Full Monte Carlo EAS Simulation in the GZK Energy Region
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- Prof. katsuaki kasahara KASAHARA
Primary authors
- Prof. katsuaki kasahara KASAHARA (Advanced Research Institue For Science And Engineering, Waseda University)
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Abstract content
We developed a new parallel processing method enabling full M.C EAS simulation (say, with minimum energy of
500 keV) without using thin sampling even at 10^19 eV. Normally, distributed-parallel processing needs a
specific software and programs must be organized to match with such system. During the computation such a
scheme also requires complex communications among many computer hosts.
Our scheme first creates a skeleton of a shower, and smashes it into n-peaces and distributes the peaces to n-
cpu to flesh them. After each peace is completely fleshed, they are assembled to make a complete picture of the
shower. Thus, during the computation need no communication. With n=50, a 10^19 eV shower can be
simulated in ~10 days. For a 10^20 eV shower, we may randomly sample a fraction of n-peases (say, 100 for
n=1000), and safely econstruct whole picture of the shower. The scheme dose not use any weight on each
particle and very much stable.
The scheme has been implemented in Cosmos code. To produce a number of showers with full fluctuations,
we have also developed a new method which utilizes the present result. The latter is used for the TA
experiment and is described in an accompanying paper.
Reference
Proceedings of the 30th International Cosmic Ray Conference; Rogelio Caballero, Juan Carlos D'Olivo, Gustavo Medina-Tanco, Lukas Nellen, Federico A. Sánchez, José F. Valdés-Galicia (eds.); Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City, Mexico, 2008; Vol. 4 (HE part 1), pages 581-584