Madgraph4GPU User Guide

Last modification of this page: 25 Apr 2024

The instructions below shall provide the necessary information for users of the Madgraph4GPU repository to install the software, generate the source code for various physics processes and to run the event generation for those.

We have agreed with the upstream Madgraph team to provide Madgraph4GPU as a "plugin" to the project. The instructions below provide you the current way of retrieving and building the software. It is expected that the way of retrieving the software will change, the usage of it though shall be less impacted by the future evolution of this software.

If you run into any troubles with the guide below please contact [email protected]

General remarks about the repository

Environment to build the software

We are building the software with various compiler versions. Below you find a table of compiler versions and operating systems which we have tested. For usage within the experiment workflows (especially LHC) we intend to align those.

CPU with vector instructions

OS	Compiler

NVidia GPUs

OS	CPU compiler	NVidia version

AMD GPUs

OS	CPU compiler	AMD version

Retrieving the software

As the software is still under development we have not provided an official release of it yet. We always intend to keep the master branches in a working state. To retrieve the Madgraph4GPU package together with its upstream Madgraph5_amc@NLO components you can checkout the software with

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