title: [Design and study of parallel computing environment of Monte Carlo simulation for particle therapy planning using a public cloud-computing infrastructure].
abstract: This report was aimed at structuring the design of architectures and studying performance measurement of a parallel computing environment using a Monte Carlo simulation for particle therapy using a high performance computing (HPC) instance within a public cloud-computing infrastructure. Performance measurements showed an approximately 28 times faster speed than seen with single-thread architecture, combined with improved stability. A study of methods of optimizing the system operations also indicated lower cost.
authors.affiliation: Tanaka Hospital.
authors.forename: Noriya
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Yokohama
mesh_terms: D003205:Computing Methodologies; D020407:Internet; D009010:Monte Carlo Method; D061766:Proton Therapy; D011880:Radiotherapy Planning, Computer-Assisted / Q000379:methods*