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Support #11646

Build Geant4 v10.2 with the USolids library (but with USOLIDS_VECGEOM=OFF)

Added by Adam Lyon over 4 years ago. Updated almost 4 years ago.

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Closed
Priority:
Normal
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Target version:
-
Start date:
02/05/2016
Due date:
% Done:

100%

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Scope:
Internal
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g-2
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Description

See http://geant4.web.cern.ch/geant4/UserDocumentation/UsersGuides/InstallationGuide/html/ch02s03.html (search for USolids)

For USolids, see http://aidasoft.web.cern.ch/USolids and https://gitlab.cern.ch/VecGeom/VecGeom/raw/v00-01-00/doc/GEANT4_INSTALL.md . But be sure that you set USOLIDS_VECGEOM=OFF (we don't want to use the VecGeom implementation yet - that's not ready for production).

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#1 Updated by Kyle Knoepfel over 4 years ago

  • Status changed from New to Feedback

We would like to bring this up at the stakeholders meeting to discuss the experiments' desires and intentions for incorporating vectorization in their use of Geant4.

#2 Updated by Adam Lyon over 4 years ago

Hi Kyle - So the issue here is not vectorization -- according to our resident VecGeom expert, Guilherme Lima (who is down the hall from you), VecGeom is not ready for general use. g-2 needs Geant compiled against USolids because USolids speeds up tracking through tessellated volumes by three orders of magnitude over regular Geant. The library is just better - not vectorized. -- Adam

#3 Updated by Kyle Knoepfel almost 4 years ago

  • Status changed from Feedback to Closed
  • % Done changed from 0 to 100

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