Performance Evaluation of Multithreaded Geant4 Simulations Using an Intel Xeon Phi Cluster

<table class="table-group" id="tab3"><tr><td><table class="table"><tr><td class="thead-hr" colspan="3"><hr/></td></tr><tr class="thead"><td align="left" rowspan="2">Number of particles</td><td align="center" colspan="2">Computing time (mins)</td></tr><tr class="thead"><td align="center">40 Xeon threads</td><td align="center">960 Phi threads</td></tr><tr><td class="thead-hr" colspan="3"><hr/></td></tr><tr><td align="left">10<sup>8</sup></td><td align="center">40.6</td><td align="center">49.9</td></tr><tr><td align="left">10<sup>9</sup></td><td align="center">407.5</td><td align="center">390.4</td></tr><tr class="table-tr"><td colspan="3"><hr class="tbody-hr"/></td></tr></table></td></tr></table>

Computing time obtained for 10<sup>8</sup> and 10<sup>9</sup> particles on 40 Xeon threads and 960 Phi threads.

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Table 3: Performance Evaluation of Multithreaded Geant4 Simulations Using an Intel Xeon Phi Cluster 