Simulating charged particle motion through the elements is necessary to understand modern particle accelerators. The particle numbers and the circling turns in a synchrotron are huge, and a simulation can be timeconsu...Simulating charged particle motion through the elements is necessary to understand modern particle accelerators. The particle numbers and the circling turns in a synchrotron are huge, and a simulation can be timeconsuming. Open multi-processing(Open MP) is a convenient method to speed up the computing of multi-cores for computers based on share memory model. Using message passing interface(MPI) which is based on nonuniform memory access architecture, a coarse grain parallel algorithm is set up for the Accelerator Toolbox(AT)for dynamic tracking processes. The computing speedup of the tracking process is 3.77 times with a quad-core CPU computer and the speed almost grows linearly with the number of CPU.展开更多
基金Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No11105214)
文摘Simulating charged particle motion through the elements is necessary to understand modern particle accelerators. The particle numbers and the circling turns in a synchrotron are huge, and a simulation can be timeconsuming. Open multi-processing(Open MP) is a convenient method to speed up the computing of multi-cores for computers based on share memory model. Using message passing interface(MPI) which is based on nonuniform memory access architecture, a coarse grain parallel algorithm is set up for the Accelerator Toolbox(AT)for dynamic tracking processes. The computing speedup of the tracking process is 3.77 times with a quad-core CPU computer and the speed almost grows linearly with the number of CPU.
