Virtual Accelerator: Distributed Environment for Modeling Beam Accelerator Control System

Author

Korkhov, Vladimir ; Ivanov, Alexander ; Kulabukhova, Natalia ; Bogdanov, Alexei ; Andrianov, S.

Author_Institution

Fac. of Appl. Math. & Control Processes, St. Petersburg State Univ., St. Petersburg, Russia

fYear

2013

fDate

24-27 June 2013

Firstpage

166

Lastpage

169

Abstract

Simulation of beam dynamics is an important step needed to aid the design and configuration of particle beam accelerators. A number of methods and software packages have been developed to address modeling in accelerator physics. However, the results of simulations often need to be validated by simultaneous usage of several packages for solving similar problem and comparing the results. In addition, different packages can be used together, each solving a single step of a problem and forming a workflow of processing steps together. In this paper we describe the Virtual Accelerator environment for modeling beam dynamics on distributed computational resources. We present the concepts and the design of the Virtual Accelerator, describe the prototype implementation and show early results.

Keywords

cloud computing; grid computing; particle accelerators; particle beam dynamics; physics computing; software packages; accelerator physics; cloud computing; distributed computational resources; distributed environment; grid computing; particle beam accelerator control system; software packages; virtual accelerator; Computational modeling; Control systems; Distributed computing; Mathematical model; Particle beams; Software packages; beam accelerator; cloud computing; distributed computing; grid computing; modeling;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computational Science and Its Applications (ICCSA), 2013 13th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Ho Chi Minh City

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICCSA.2013.33

Filename

6681116