GPU acceleration of optical photon propagation in low photon yield applications: Opticks for the Electron Ion Collider

Gabor Galgoczi, Kolja Kauder, Maxim Potekhin +3

The bulk of time spent in the simulation of Cherenkov and other scintillation detectors is spent on optical-photon transport, i.e. ray tracing, a task that GPUs are uniquely qualif…