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<a href="https://cds.cern.ch/search?f=author&p=Folger%2C%20Gunter&ln=en">Folger, Gunter</a> (CERN) ; <a href="https://cds.cern.ch/search?f=author&p=Genser%2C%20Krzysztof&ln=en">Genser, Krzysztof</a> (Fermilab) ; <a href="https://cds.cern.ch/search?f=author&p=Jun%2C%20Soon%20Yung&ln=en">Jun, Soon Yung</a> (Fermilab) ; <a href="https://cds.cern.ch/search?f=author&p=Kowalkowski%2C%20James%20B&ln=en">Kowalkowski, James B</a> (Fermilab) ; <a href="https://cds.cern.ch/search?f=author&p=Paterno%2C%20Marc&ln=en">Paterno, Marc</a> (Fermilab)</td></tr> <tr><td class="formatRecordLabel"> Publication </td><td style="padding-left:5px;">2015</td></tr> <tr><td class="formatRecordLabel"> Number of pages </td><td style="padding-left:5px;">8</td></tr> <tr><td class="formatRecordLabel"> In: </td><td style="padding-left:5px;"><a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1742-6596/664/6/062021"><i>J. Phys.: Conf. Ser.</i> 664 (2015) 062021</a> </a></td></tr> <tr><td class="formatRecordLabel"> In: </td><td style="padding-left:5px;"><a href="https://cds.cern.ch/record/1958286">21st International Conference on Computing in High Energy and Nuclear Physics</a>, Okinawa, Japan, 13 - 17 Apr 2015, pp.062021</td></tr> <tr><td class="formatRecordLabel"> DOI </td><td style="padding-left:5px;"><a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1742-6596/664/6/062021" title="DOI" target="_blank">10.1088/1742-6596/664/6/062021</a> <tr><td class="formatRecordLabel"> Subject category </td><td style="padding-left:5px;">Computing and Computers</td></tr> <tr><td class="formatRecordLabel"> Abstract </td><td style="padding-left:5px;">Performance evaluation and analysis of large scale computing applications is essential for optimal use of resources. As detector simulation is one of the most compute intensive tasks and Geant4 is the simulation toolkit most widely used in contemporary high energy physics (HEP) experiments, it is important to monitor Geant4 through its development cycle for changes in computing performance and to identify problems and opportunities for code improvements. All Geant4 development and public releases are being profiled with a set of applications that utilize different input event samples, physics parameters, and detector configurations. Results from multiple benchmarking runs are compared to previous public and development reference releases to monitor CPU and memory usage. Observed changes are evaluated and correlated with code modifications. Besides the full summary of call stack and memory footprint, a detailed call graph analysis is available to Geant4 developers for further analysis. The set of software tools used in the performance evaluation procedure, both in sequential and multi-threaded modes, include FAST, IgProf and Open|Speedshop. The scalability of the CPU time and memory performance in multi-threaded application is evaluated by measuring event throughput and memory gain as a function of the number of threads for selected event samples.</td></tr> <tr><td class="formatRecordLabel"> Copyright/License </td><td style="padding-left:5px;">publication: © 2015-2025 The Author(s) (License: <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/">CC-BY-3.0</a>)</td></tr> </table> <br/>Corresponding record in: <a href="http://inspirehep.net/record/1413942">Inspire</a> <small> </small> <br/> <br/><br/><div align="right"><div style="padding-bottom:2px;padding-top:30px;"><span class="moreinfo" style="margin-right:10px;"> <a href="" class="moreinfo">Back to search</a> </span></div></div> <div class="bottom-left-folded"><div class="recordlastmodifiedbox" style="position:relative;margin-left:1px"> Record created 2016-02-26, last modified 2022-08-10</div></div> <div class="bottom-right-folded" style="text-align:right;padding-bottom:2px;"> <span class="moreinfo" style="margin-right:10px;"><a href="/search?ln=en&p=recid%3A2134601&rm=wrd" class="moreinfo">Similar records</a></span></div> </div> </div> </div> <br/> <br /> <div class="detailedrecordminipanel"> <div class="top-left"></div><div class="top-right"></div> <div class="inside"> <div id="detailedrecordminipanelfile" style="width:33%;float:left;text-align:center;margin-top:0"> <div><small class="detailedRecordActions">IOP Open Access article:</small> <br /><a href="/record/2134601/files/Geant4 Computing Performance Benchmarking and Monitoring.pdf"><img style="border:none" src="/img/file-icon-text-34x48.gif" alt="Download fulltext" /><br />PDF</a><br /></div> </div> <div id="detailedrecordminipanelreview" style="width:30%;float:left;text-align:center"> </div> <div id="detailedrecordminipanelactions" style="width:36%;float:right;text-align:right;"> <ul class="detailedrecordactions"> <li><a href="/yourbaskets/add?ln=en&recid=2134601">Add to personal basket</a></li> <li>Export as <a style="text-decoration:underline;font-weight:normal" href="/record/2134601/export/hx?ln=en">BibTeX</a>, <a style="text-decoration:underline;font-weight:normal" href="/record/2134601/export/hm?ln=en">MARC</a>, <a style="text-decoration:underline;font-weight:normal" href="/record/2134601/export/xm?ln=en">MARCXML</a>, <a style="text-decoration:underline;font-weight:normal" href="/record/2134601/export/xd?ln=en">DC</a>, <a style="text-decoration:underline;font-weight:normal" href="/record/2134601/export/xe?ln=en">EndNote</a>,  <a style="text-decoration:underline;font-weight:normal" href="/record/2134601/export/xn?ln=en">NLM</a>, <a style="text-decoration:underline;font-weight:normal" href="/record/2134601/export/xw?ln=en">RefWorks</a> </li> </ul> <div style='padding-left: 13px;'>  <div id="bookmark"></div> <div id="bookmark_sciencewise"></div> <style type="text/css"> #bookmark_sciencewise, #bookmark {float: left;} #bookmark_sciencewise li {padding: 2px; width: 25px;} #bookmark_sciencewise ul, #bookmark ul {list-style-image: none;} </style> <script type="text/javascript" src="/js/jquery.bookmark.min.js"></script> <style type="text/css">@import "/css/jquery.bookmark.css";</style> <script type="text/javascript">// <![CDATA[ $.bookmark.addSite('sciencewise', 'ScienceWise.info', 'https://cds.cern.ch/img/sciencewise.png', 'en', 'bookmark', 'http://sciencewise.info/bookmarks/cds:2134601/add'); $('#bookmark_sciencewise').bookmark({sites: ['sciencewise']}); $('#bookmark').bookmark({ sites: ['facebook', 'twitter', 'linkedin', 'google_plusone'], icons: '/img/bookmarks.png', url: 'https://cds.cern.ch/record/2134601', addEmail: true, title: "Geant4 Computing Performance Benchmarking and Monitoring", description: "Performance evaluation and analysis of large scale computing applications is essential for optimal use of resources. 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