2018 Session 7

Objectives

Presentations

  • Multithreading 1 ( slides )
    • What is a thread, Why multi-threading, Multi-threading in Geant4, Multi-threading Geant4 application
  • Multithreading 2 ( slides )
    • What is thread-safety, Geant4 MT utilities
  • More on Multi-threading( slides )
    • Event data reduction, Migration of a sequential application to MT, Results with Geant 10.2 (reproducibilty, scalability, memory reduction), integration with external frameworks

Exercise

  • Migrate Geant4 application to MT
  • Inspect Root output, using TChain
  • Get experience with Geant4 multi-threading
  • Get experience with a race condition