| Title |
SixTrack Project: Status, Runtime Environment, and New Developments |
| Authors |
- R. De Maria, J. Andersson, L. Field, M. Giovannozzi, P.D. Hermes, N. Hoimyr, G. Iadarola, S. Kostoglou, E.H. Maclean, E. McIntosh, A. Mereghetti, J. Molson, V.K.B. Olsen, D. Pellegrini, T. Persson, M. Schwinzerl, K.N. Sjobak
CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
- E.H. Maclean
University of Malta, Information and Communication Technology, Msida, Malta
- S. Singh
Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai, India
- K.N. Sjobak
University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
- I. Zacharov
EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland
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| Abstract |
SixTrack is a single-particle tracking code for high-energy circular accelerators routinely used at CERN for the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), its luminosity upgrade (HL-LHC), the Future Circular Collider (FCC), and the Super Proton Synchrotron (SPS) simulations. The code is based on a 6D symplectic tracking engine, which is optimised for long-term tracking simulations and delivers fully reproducible results on several platforms. It also includes multiple scattering engines for beam-matter interaction studies, as well as facilities to run integrated simulations with FLUKA and GEANT4. These features differentiate SixTrack from general-purpose, optics-design software like MAD-X. The code recently underwent a major restructuring to merge advanced features into a single branch, such as multiple ion species, interface with external codes, and high-performance input/output (XRootD, HDF5). This restructuring also removed a large number of build flags, instead enabling/disabling the functionality at run-time. In the process, the code was moved from Fortran 77 to Fortran 2018 standard, also allowing and achieving a better modularization. Physics models (beam-beam effects, RF-multipoles, current carrying wires, solenoid, and electron lenses) and methods (symplecticity check) have also been reviewed and refined to offer more accurate results. The SixDesk runtime environment allows the user to manage the large batches of simulations required for accurate predictions of the dynamic aperture. SixDesk supports CERN LSF and HTCondor batch systems, as well as the BOINC infrastructure in the framework of the LHC@Home volunteering computing project. SixTrackLib is a new library aimed at providing a portable and flexible tracking engine for single- and multi-particle problems using the models and formalism of SixTrack. The tracking routines are implemented in a parametrized C code that is specialised to run vectorized in CPUs and GPUs, by using SIMD intrinsics, OpenCL 1.2, and CUDA tech
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| Funding |
Research supported by the HL-LHC project and Google Summer of Code 2018. |
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| Conference |
ICAP2018 |
| Series |
International Computational Accelerator Physics Conference (13th) |
| Location |
Key West, FL, USA |
| Date |
20-24 October 2018 |
| Publisher |
JACoW Publishing, Geneva, Switzerland |
| Editorial Board |
Volker RW Schaa (GSI, Darmstadt, Germany); Kyoko Makino (MSU, East Lansing, MI, USA); Pavel Snopok (IIT, Chicago, IL, USA); Martin Berz (MSU, East Lansing, MI, USA) |
| Online ISBN |
978-3-95450-200-4 |
| Received |
18 October 2018 |
| Accepted |
24 October 2018 |
| Issue Date |
04 May 2019 |
| DOI |
doi:10.18429/JACoW-ICAP2018-TUPAF02 |
| Copyright |
 Published by JACoW Publishing under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 International license. Any further distribution of this work must maintain attribution to the author(s), the published article's title, publisher, and DOI. |
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