First Results from the Parallelization of CERN's NA48 Simulation Program

The GP-MIMD2 project aims at demonstrating the effectiveness of using a European massively parallel supercomputer (MEIKO CS-2) in two different scientific production environments. One of its initial goals is the development of a parallel version of NMC, a specialized simulation code (developed by the CERN experiment NA48) which relies on a huge database (shower library) for maximum efficiency. NMC's memory requirements, combined with NA48's need of high statistics on a short timescale, make it a particular interesting candidate for MPP applications.