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SWIFT-HEP Phase 1.5

Lead Research Organisation: University of Warwick
Department Name: Physics

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Publications

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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 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