Acceleration of Monte Carlo Simulation Using GPU Cluster
Monte Carlo simulation is of great significance in simulating the light propagation in tissues, which quantifies the light delivered to the treated tissue and is an important factor for improving clinical results. However, Monte Carlo simulation is very time-consuming because of the extensive computational burden. It limits the practical application of Monte Carlo method greatly. To improve the performance of Monte Carlo simulation for photon transport in turbid media, a new version of Monte Carlo program for simulation of light transport in multi-layered tissues is developed base on the GPU Cluster. it is called "GPU Cluster MCML" in simple words. It has the same function as Lihong Wang and Steven L. Jacques' "MCML" running on the CPU. In the "GPU Cluster MCML", Distributed Computing of GPU Clusters installed in different personal computers within a local area network (LAN) are employed to accelerating the simulation greatly.
The executable for tests can be download from the website(Monte Carlo Simulation of Light Transport in Multi-layered Turbid Media Based on GPU Clusters ): http://bmp.hust.edu.cn/GPU_Cluster/GPU_Cluster_MCML.HTM
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