Goals

The goal of the PPF is to be a robust, efficient, and correct library to help in the parallelization of radiation particle transport packages. Specifically the goals of the PPF are to:

• Distribute workload of radiation particle transport problems semi-efficiently between nodes of large distributed supercomputers.
• Provide scalability of a problem across arbitrary nodes.
• Decompose the problem mesh across across multiple nodes transparently to the developer.
• Provide transparent particle passing between nodes/mesh sections.
• Eliminate the need for developers to learn the intricacies of distributed parallel programming.
• Provide a standard for particle physics module architectures.
• Reduce development and training time for radiation particle transport packages.
• Create a tracking system to aid in particle visualization.