Experiences of Parallelizing the PSE Model for Electron Beam Radiotherapy
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Experiences with the parallelization of the Phase Space Evolution (PSE) model for electron beam dose calculation are discussed. It is shown that the communication cost in a parallel implementation of the PSE model can be kept small. However, because of the dynamical behaviour of the work load during a PSE simulation special measures must be taken to obtain a good load balance among the processors. The results show that a parallel version of the PSE model with a linear speedup of about 0.5 times the number of processors is feasible.
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