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In a context where the HEP community is striving to improve the software to cope with higher data throughput, detector simulation is adapting to benefit from new performance opportunities. Given the complexity of the particle transport modeling, new developments such as adapting to accelerator hardware represent a scalable R&D effort.
The AdePT and Celeritas projects have already demonstrated the feasibility of porting realistic detector simulations to GPUs, which are becoming more and more available as computing resources. However, achieving efficiencies comparable to the standard CPU-based simulation still has essential work sites, and improving GPU support for geometry is one of them. VecGeom library is one of the geometry back-ends available for Geant4, used in production by several experiments. VecGeom is CUDA-aware, but recent studies have pinpointed the current GPU implementation as a major source of divergence and inefficiency in GPU simulation workflows.
We will present the results of a one-year effort to develop a fully portable geometry model mapping the existing Geant4 geometry descriptions to a GPU-friendly surface-based approach. The implementation is completely transparent and aims to provide a GPU implementation that factorizes the divergent code of the 3D primitive solids into simpler and more balanced 2D surface algorithms.
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