Our Solution

The Parallel Particle Framework (PPF) is a multi-platform library which enables developers of radiation particle transport packages to parallelize their code without having to learn the intricacies of the latest parallel tools. The PPF is designed to provide an intuative interface and the ability to be integrated into new packages or existing code without drastically changing the original code structure. While large UNIX based supercomputers are the target platforms for the PPF, its use of ANSI C++ will allow it to compile and run on any platform which supports MPI and ANSI c++ with few or no changes. The PPF is bieng developed in partnership with Livermore Labs.

The benefits of using the PPF in development of radiation particle transport problems are:

Reduction of development and training hours in order to reduce the time and cost of a project.
• Maximixation of resources by enabeling package developers to concentrate on their areas of study.
• Ensured correctness in parallelization.
• Increased maintainability of code, due to standardization.
• Ensured robust, efficient parallelization over distributed systems, improving the and product.
• Preperation for future changes to distributed mechanisms by abstracting parallelization methods.

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