Medical Physics faculty and students participated in a workshop on Monte Carlo simulation using the High Performance Computing cluster on April 9 at 10.

The workshop was organized by Dr Nabil Maalej, associate professor in medical physics, and conducted by Dr. Wamied Abdel Rahman, a medical physics faculty at McGill University. Dr Wamied did his BS in physics at KFUPM and his MS and PhD in medical physics at McGill University   With the help of the HPC staff, Dr. Wamied installed and tested the EGSnrc software on the HPC.  EGSnrc is a Monte Carlo Software developed by the Canadian National Research Council (NRC) and is a very powerful research tool in the field of medical physics.  Dr. Nabil Maalej hopes in the future to do cancer patient radiation dosimetry studies using parallel computing at the HPC.