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Description
At the world largest particle accelerators, such as the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, or the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider at BNL, hundreds of thousands of interesting interactions may occur in every second. A special subset of these events are the high-energy heavy-ion collisions, aiming to investigate the birth of the Universe itself. These experimental measurements are always accompanied by numerical calculations, such as Monte Carlo event generators. However, these calculations are very computational intensive: even with a state-of-the-art desktop machine many CPU hours (days, weeks sometimes) is needed to simulate only a few seconds of experimental data. Additionally, with the future improvements of the LHC it will be an even bigger challenge to catch up computationally.
The HIJING++ Monte Carlo heavy-ion event generator that we are developing will be one of the possible solutions for this task. With the latest theoretical models equipped it is designed to perform precise calculations in a flexible, fast, CPU parallel way. On our poster we demonstrate that utilizing the power of HPC clusters the necessary computational time can be reduced significantly.
