Ponente
Carlos Vico
(ICTEA - Universidad de Oviedo)
Descripción
Given the probabilistic nature of proton-proton collisions, montecarlo-based simulations (MC) of high energy physics processes are the best handle an experimental particle physicist has in order to compare data to prediction. As of now, the state-of-the-art predictions often reach next-to-next-to-leading order (NLO) accuracies (in expansions of QCD strong coupling). The limiting factor is, however, not a theoretical one; but a computational one: most of the theoretical predictions are often computed using CPUs, which are limited in the amount of multithreading one can achieve. In this presentation, a new proposal using FPGA-based (hardware) accelerators that aims to reduce even more the computational cost of MC production is reviewed.
Autor primario
Carlos Vico
(ICTEA - Universidad de Oviedo)
