Introduction

Pepper (Portable Engine for the Production of Parton-level Event Records) is an efficient parton-level event generator to simulate high-energy physics at colliders such as the LHC. It is scalable from a laptop to a Leadership Class HPC Facility.

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The Kokkos and native variants of Pepper

Pepper versions come in two variants. The main or Kokkos variant uses Kokkos to provide cross-platform support with parallel algorithm implementations. The native variant allows to either compile natively for running serially on a CPU, or to compile using the Nvidia CUDA API for supported GPU. Below you can find tutorials for getting started for both variants.

Tutorials

• Getting started (main Kokkos version)
• Getting started (native version)
• Running Pepper for the first time

Topic Guides

• Processes
• Using CUDA
• Re-using cached optimisation/integration results
• Writing events
• Reading events

Reference

• Command-line interface reference
• Runcard options
• API Reference
• Bibliography

About Pepper

• Citing Pepper and its dependencies
• Contact