High-Performance Martian Space Radiation Mapping / 145-149
Liwen Shih
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Abstract--To ensure the health of space personnel and the cost-efficiency and safe-operation of space materiel and equipment, we performed a preliminary investigation to find ways to apply high-performance and parallel computer techniques to enable more speedy, accurate, efficient, and user-friendly space radiation studies--modeling, analysis, simulation, and visualization--for Mars missions and current and future space missions. The need to modernize NASA radiation codes is understood. We are currently obtaining the code and seeking support to restructure the computation to match newly developed computer resources of parallel, multithread, network cluster and reconfigurable parallel FPGA platforms. The success of applying parallel techniques to enhance deterministic HZETRN and stochastic FLUKA Monte Carlo radiation transport analysis/ simulation codes used by NASA scientists will greatly enhance space radiation understanding. This research is also vital to safer nuclear energy and anti-aging, cancer treatment with applications in the public sector.