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Reduce split particle memory in secondary banks

Open pshriwise opened this issue 6 months ago • 0 comments

Description

When we split particles during variance reduction, the source sites generated using Particle::split are identical in nature. To reduce storage in the secondary particle bank, it would be useful to allow source sites in the bank to be "reused" a number of times when sourcing them to reduce memory overhead in this data structure.

Alternatives

If supporting this involves too much additional complexity or we're solving a problem that isn't there (pending some data collection on the size of the secondary arrays), then it might be best to leave it as-is.

Compatibility

This will likely change the SourceSite struct, which has ramifications for the statepoint spec and MPI communication. It will also require some additional bookkeeping.

pshriwise avatar Jul 08 '25 22:07 pshriwise