A Simple Parallelization Scheme for Extensive Air Shower Simulations

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A simple method for the parallelization of extensive air shower simulations is described.

• A shower is simulated at fixed steps in altitude.
• At each step, daughter particles below a specified energy threshold are siphoned off and tabulated for further simulation.
• Once the entire shower has been tabulated, the resulting list of particles is concatenated and divided into separate list files where each possesses a similar projected computation time.