Special Action for Parallel Architectures in Italy: "Parallelisation of Large Code"

PALACE - 7519

Keywords Italy, parallel architectures, technology transfer

Start Date: 01 January 1993 / Duration: 24 months / Status: ongoing

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porting an existing large High Energy Physics code with an extensive user base to run effectively on parallel systems

Objectives and Approach

The effective usage of parallel machines in research and industry is limited by the difficulties met by the users both in designing new applications and in porting existing ones. Porting the High Energy Physics GEANT code to a 128-node European machine will provide a realistic test of a set of parallelisation tools created to ease these problems. The experience gained will contribute to the effective exploitation of parallel machines in research and industry.

The project will cover the following activities:

• technology transfer from relevant sources and training of the necessary staff to exploit and program the selected machine
• port and test the existing code
• explanation of the techniques used and their possible generalisation to other similar codes and machines
• porting onto other selected architectures for comparison

CONTACT POINT

P. Zanella
CRS4
Via Nazario Sauro 10
I-09123 Cagliari
tel: +39 70 279-6223
fax: +39 70 279-6220

Participants

Coordinator
CRS Sardegna [I]
Partners
Advanced Computing Systems [I]
Ente per le Nuove Tecnologie l'Energia e l'Ambiente [I]

PALACE - 7519, December 1993

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