Parallel Virtual Machine Parallelization of ARGUS

148 Parallel Virtual Machine Parallelization of ARGUS--FARTECH, Inc., 3146 Bunche Avenue, San Diego, CA 92122-2247; (619) 455-6607 Dr. Jin-Soo Kim, Principal Investigator Dr. Jin-Soo Kim, Business Official DOE Grant No. DE-FG03-97ER82380 Amount: $75,000 Designers of high energy physics accelerators experience delays and in some cases substantial inefficiencies in carrying out very complex calculations on their computer systems. Most computer codes used to address accelerator component design are written for single-processor computer architectures, and are not able to take advantage of multiple-processor computing without significant rewriting of the core software. This project will develop a three dimensional computer code to permit the modeling of these components by university, industrial and national laboratory designers. The approach is to use the Parallel Virtual Machine (PVM) programming system which is platform independent and will result in a simulation tool that can run on, in general, a heterogeneous grouping of computers ranging from the Cray T3E to Intel based PC¿s running Windows ¿95 or Windows NT. For Phase I, the code will be analyzed to determine how to best use the capabilities of the PVM system to map the domains to multiple processors, as well as how to best take advantage of the collateral benefits afforded by parallelization. A platform independent parallel-processing code will be researched and designed. Commercial Applications and Other Benefits as described by the awardee: This capability would bring affordable, tractable, 3D electromagnetic/electrostatic PIC modeling to many designers for the first time, as well as significantly increase the speed, complexity, or scale-size of problems for designers having more substantial computational resources available. All design centers from industry to nationally-funded center will benefit, since the product will be platform independent and will run on virtually every computer system used for accelerator component design today.