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Dynamic Load Balancing of Parallel Monte Carlo Transport Calculations (open access)

Dynamic Load Balancing of Parallel Monte Carlo Transport Calculations

The performance of parallel Monte Carlo transport calculations which use both spatial and particle parallelism is increased by dynamically assigning processors to the most worked domains. Since the particle work load varies over the course of the simulation, this algorithm determines each cycle if dynamic load balancing would speed up the calculation. If load balancing is required, a small number of particle communications are initiated in order to achieve load balance. This method has decreased the parallel run time by more than a factor of three for certain criticality calculations.
Date: December 22, 2004
Creator: O'Brien, M; Taylor, J & Procassini, R
System: The UNT Digital Library