Community Meeting on Detector Simulation GPU R&D: 3rd Announcement

[Philippe G Canal]

Dear colleagues,

This coming up Tuesday May 3rd, the community meeting organized by the AdePT and Celeritas R&D activities addressing Monte Carlo detector detector simulations on GPUs will start.  We will present the status of the prototypes, results, discuss them in the context of the current state of the art simulation applications, invite early feedback, and identify the possible future directions for our R&D.

The meeting will take place during four afternoons (15h-19h CERN time, 8h-12h US Central Time) from Tuesday the 3rd to Friday the 6th of May.  The agenda is available on the meeting Indico page at:

    https://indico.cern.ch/event/1123314/

It will be a hybrid meeting, with in-person attendance at CERN possible, along with a Zoom connection for remote participants.
In both cases, we invite you to register through the Indico registration page and indicate whether you will attend in person or not.
This is essential so that we can plan for numbers and suitable rooms for in-person attendees at CERN.

Note that the physical meeting room at CERN is different (almost) every day.

The general topics that will be covered are: core transport algorithm and data infrastructure, geometry, physics, and integration possibilities with Geant4 and users’ frameworks. AdePT and Celeritas aim to answer whether we can run HEP particle transport in an efficient way on GPUs, with a first goal of implementing demonstrators of the electromagnetic calorimeter shower simulation, including a realistic geometry description and a set of essential electromagnetic physics processes.

If this community meeting is of interest for you, we invite you to participate and look forward to seeing you! Please feel free to
advertise the meeting to other colleagues.

Best regards,

AdePT project
Celeritas project
HSF Detector Simulation Working Group