SoftWare InFrastructure and Technology for High Energy Physics experiments (SWIFT-HEP)
Lead Research Organisation:
University of Warwick
Department Name: Physics
Abstract
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Organisations
- University of Warwick (Lead Research Organisation)
- Oak Ridge National Laboratory (Collaboration)
- Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (Collaboration)
- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Collaboration)
- Fermilab - Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Collaboration)
- Argonne National Laboratory (Collaboration)
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) (Collaboration)
People |
ORCID iD |
| Ben Morgan (Principal Investigator) | |
| Timothy Martin (Researcher) |
Publications
Amadio G
(2023)
Offloading electromagnetic shower transport to GPUs
in Journal of Physics: Conference Series
Apostolakis J
(2022)
Detector Simulation Challenges for Future Accelerator Experiments
in Frontiers in Physics
| Description | ExaTEPP: Theoretical and Experimental Particle Physics at the Exascale Frontier |
| Amount | £161,026 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | EP/X019349/1 |
| Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 12/2022 |
| End | 11/2024 |
| Description | ACTS Project |
| Organisation | European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) |
| Country | Switzerland |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Development and profiling of Track Finding algorithms utilising the Alpaka software for portability across GPU/Accelerator devices |
| Collaborator Contribution | Co-working on profiling, feedback and training, general support for the underlying software. |
| Impact | Integration of Alpaka-based algorithms into traccc component of ACTS |
| Start Year | 2023 |
| Description | ACTS Project |
| Organisation | Rutherford Appleton Laboratory |
| Department | Particle Physics Department |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | Development and profiling of Track Finding algorithms utilising the Alpaka software for portability across GPU/Accelerator devices |
| Collaborator Contribution | Co-working on profiling, feedback and training, general support for the underlying software. |
| Impact | Integration of Alpaka-based algorithms into traccc component of ACTS |
| Start Year | 2023 |
| Description | HEP community collaboration on R&D for detector simulation on GPU accelerators |
| Organisation | Argonne National Laboratory |
| Country | United States |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | Design and development of algorithms for data flow and electromagnetic physics processes for detector simulation on GPU accelerators. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Design and development of algorithms for data flow and electromagnetic physics processes for detector simulation on GPU accelerators. |
| Impact | Demonstrator code and applications for benchmarking physics and throughput performance. AdePT and Celeritas software for GPU transport of EM particles on NVIDIA/AMD GPUs. Particle Physics, Computer Science, Nuclear Engineering. |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | HEP community collaboration on R&D for detector simulation on GPU accelerators |
| Organisation | European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) |
| Department | Physics Department |
| Country | Switzerland |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Design and development of algorithms for data flow and electromagnetic physics processes for detector simulation on GPU accelerators. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Design and development of algorithms for data flow and electromagnetic physics processes for detector simulation on GPU accelerators. |
| Impact | Demonstrator code and applications for benchmarking physics and throughput performance. AdePT and Celeritas software for GPU transport of EM particles on NVIDIA/AMD GPUs. Particle Physics, Computer Science, Nuclear Engineering. |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | HEP community collaboration on R&D for detector simulation on GPU accelerators |
| Organisation | Fermilab - Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory |
| Country | United States |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | Design and development of algorithms for data flow and electromagnetic physics processes for detector simulation on GPU accelerators. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Design and development of algorithms for data flow and electromagnetic physics processes for detector simulation on GPU accelerators. |
| Impact | Demonstrator code and applications for benchmarking physics and throughput performance. AdePT and Celeritas software for GPU transport of EM particles on NVIDIA/AMD GPUs. Particle Physics, Computer Science, Nuclear Engineering. |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | HEP community collaboration on R&D for detector simulation on GPU accelerators |
| Organisation | Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory |
| Country | United States |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | Design and development of algorithms for data flow and electromagnetic physics processes for detector simulation on GPU accelerators. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Design and development of algorithms for data flow and electromagnetic physics processes for detector simulation on GPU accelerators. |
| Impact | Demonstrator code and applications for benchmarking physics and throughput performance. AdePT and Celeritas software for GPU transport of EM particles on NVIDIA/AMD GPUs. Particle Physics, Computer Science, Nuclear Engineering. |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | HEP community collaboration on R&D for detector simulation on GPU accelerators |
| Organisation | Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
| Country | United States |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | Design and development of algorithms for data flow and electromagnetic physics processes for detector simulation on GPU accelerators. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Design and development of algorithms for data flow and electromagnetic physics processes for detector simulation on GPU accelerators. |
| Impact | Demonstrator code and applications for benchmarking physics and throughput performance. AdePT and Celeritas software for GPU transport of EM particles on NVIDIA/AMD GPUs. Particle Physics, Computer Science, Nuclear Engineering. |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Title | AdePT : Accelerated demonstrator of electromagnetic Particle Transport |
| Description | Implementation of particle transport algorithms for electrons, positrons and photons on NVIDIA GPU accelerators targeting detector simulation of HEP experiments. |
| Type Of Technology | Software |
| Year Produced | 2023 |
| Open Source License? | Yes |
| Impact | Software is currently in R&D, with testing by the CMS, ATLAS and LHCb experiments for future use in production. Alongside Celeritas project, has increased interest in use of GPUs and SIMT methods for detector simulation in HEP. |
| URL | https://github.com/apt-sim/adept |
| Title | Celeritas |
| Description | Celeritas is a new Monte Carlo transport code designed for high-performance simulation of high-energy physics detectors. |
| Type Of Technology | Software |
| Year Produced | 2022 |
| Open Source License? | Yes |
| Impact | Demonstrates feasibility of running HEP detector simulation workflows on GPU accelerators. Studies underway by CMS and ATLAS experiments of use of the toolkit in their simulation workflows and potential throughput improvements. |
| URL | https://www.osti.gov/doecode/biblio/94866 |
| Title | EvtGen |
| Description | EvtGen is a Monte Carlo event generator that simulates the decays of heavy flavour particles, primarily B and D mesons. This package is used by many particle physics experiments worldwide, including ATLAS, BaBar, Belle(-II), BES III, CDF, CLEO(-c), CMS, D0, and LHCb. The maintenance and development of the package is now performed by the particle physics group at the University of Warwick (in particular by John Back, Michal Kreps, and Thomas Latham). |
| Type Of Technology | Software |
| Year Produced | 2023 |
| Open Source License? | Yes |
| Impact | Progress has been made to make the EvtGen package, which is used to generate decays for particle physics simulations, thread safe. The funded RSE effort identified sections of the code that were not thread safe and provided a set of solutions to remedy this. Furthermore, ways in which the core design of EvtGen could be improved to accommodate thread safety in a more natural manner (and hence be able to reduce the memory footprint) were also identified, which will form the basis for future work in this direction. |
| Title | acts-project/acts: v33.0.0 |
| Description | Experiment-independent toolkit for (charged) particle track reconstruction in (high energy) physics experiments implemented in modern C++ |
| Type Of Technology | Software |
| Year Produced | 2024 |
| Open Source License? | Yes |
| Impact | Implemented Alpaka-based tracking finding algorithms in the traccc subcomponent of ACTS |
| URL | https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.10784831 |
| Description | Geant4 Collaboration Meeting and Tutorial on Medical Applications |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Presentations, discussion and planning of outcomes and next steps for development of the Geant4 C++ Toolkit for particle transport in matter. Major outcomes included engagement between R&D efforts from SWIFT-HEP and the core Geant4 software teams with interest in deeper co-working, and planning for co-ordinating international training/tutorial efforts. Held in parallel with a training course on the software for 30 Japanese researchers in medical applications of the toolkit, enabling them to effectively use the software in their work. Feedback from their questions enabled discussion on improvements to future courses. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| URL | https://conference-indico.kek.jp/event/211/ |
| Description | Geant4 assessment of simulation R&D projects: AdePT and Celeritas |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Assessment of progress and results of AdePT and Celeritas software projects for accelerating EM particle transport simulation on GPUs for LHC detectors by a panel of experts from Geant4 and LHC experiments. Reports presented with question and answer sessions between the teams and panel, with positive interest from the latter and increased support for the projects. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://indico.cern.ch/event/1332507/ |
| Description | HSF Detector Simulation on GPU Community Meeting |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Engagement with HEP experiment stakeholders to report on status of R&D on detector simulation on GPUs and gather input and feedback on their requirements. Valuable information and discussion on experiment specific topics, which lead to further interest and involvement with/by experiment members to test and develop the software towards production capability. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://indico.cern.ch/event/1123314/ |