STATUS OF ARCHER — A MONTE CARLO CODE FOR THE HIGH-PERFORMANCE HETEROGENEOUS PLATFORMS INVOLVING GPU AND MIC

Accelerators such as Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) and Many Integrated Core (MIC) coprocessors are advanced computing devices with outstandingly high computing performance and energy efficiency. The Monte Carlo transport simulation community views these advanced devices as an opportunity to effectively reduce the computation time for performance-critical applications. In this paper, we report on our recent progress in developing ARCHER (Accelerated Radiation-transport Computations in Heterogeneous EnviRonments), an innovative parallel Monte Carlo code for accurate and fast dosimetry applications on the CPU, GPU and MIC platforms.

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