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Accelerated Event-By-Event Microdosimetry Monte Carlo Simulations of Low Energy Electron and Proton On a CUDA-Enabled GPU
G Kalantzis1, H Tachibana2, L Vazquez Quino3, Y Lei4*, (1) Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, (2) UT Southwestern Medical Center, DALLAS, TX, (3) University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, SAN ANTONIO, TX, (4) Abbott Northwestern Hospital, MINNEAPOLIS, MN
SU-E-T-28 Sunday 3:00:00 PM - 6:00:00 PM Room: Exhibit HallPurpose:
For microdosimetric calculation event-by-event Monte Carlo (MC) simulation is considered the most accurate, but it is very time-consuming. In this work we present an event-by-event MC simulation of low energy electron and proton for accelerated microdosimetric MC simulations on a graphic processing unit (GPU).
Methods:
The MC simulation of particle was implemented in C and executed on a multi-core CPU, and a commercially available general purpose GPU using the compute unified device architecture (CUDA). Additionally, a hybrid implementation scheme was realized by employing OpenMP and CUDA so that both GPU and multi-core CPU were utilized simultaneously. The two implementation schemes have been tested and compared with the sequential single threaded MC simulation on the CPU. A calculation time comparison was established on the speed-up for a set of benchmarking cases of electron and proton.
Results:
Dosimetric results were obtained with both the parallel and serial MC codes. A GPU over CPU speed-up of 67.2 and 19.2 times was achieved for 300 eV and 2 keV electron tracks respectively. For proton tracks, the GPU-based code was approximately 5 times faster than the CPU-single-thread code. By incorporating a multi-core CPU and running the MC code simultaneously on the GPU and CPU, an increase of 2%-7% and 20% in the speedup was noticed for electrons and protons tracks respectively. A good dosimetric agreement between the CPU- and GPU-based MC methods was observed for both electrons and proton.
Conclusions:
A GPU-based MC method for microdosimetric calculations of low energy electron and proton has been presented. The results indicate the capability of our GPU-based implementation for accelerated MC simulations of both electron and proton without loss of accuracy. Lastly, the potential of a hybrid approach by utilizing simultaneously a GPU and a multi-core CPU for further acceleration of MC microdosimetric calculations has been demonstrated.
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