Gábor Bíró, Gábor Papp, Gergely Gábor Barnaföldi, Balázs Majoros (2021. 06.01 – 2022.08.31)

Wigner Research Centre for Physics and Eötvös University

Abstract: At the world largest particle accelerators such as the Large Hadron Collider at CERN or the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider at BNL, hundreds of thousands of interesting interactions may occur in every second. A special subset of these events are the high-energy heavy-ion collisions, aiming to investigate the birth of the Universe itself. These experimental measurements are always accompanied by numerical calculations, such as Monte Carlo event generators. However, these calculations are computationally very intensive: even with a state-of-the-art desktop machine many CPU hours (days, weeks sometimes) are needed to simulate only a few seconds of real experimental data. Additionally, with the future improvements of the LHC it will be an even bigger challenge to catch up computationally. The HIJING++ framework is the next generation of high-energy heavy-ion Monte Carlo event generators. Equipped with the latest theoretical models, it is designed to perform precise calculations in a flexible, fast, CPU parallel way. Using multicore architectures, a decent speedup can be achieved, reducing the necessary computational time and the additional costs as well.