Virtual Accelerator: Distributed Environment for Modeling Beam Accelerator Control System

Simulation of beam dynamics is an important step needed to aid the design and configuration of particle beam accelerators. A number of methods and software packages have been developed to address modeling in accelerator physics. However, the results of simulations often need to be validated by simultaneous usage of several packages for solving similar problem and comparing the results. In addition, different packages can be used together, each solving a single step of a problem and forming a workflow of processing steps together. In this paper we describe the Virtual Accelerator environment for modeling beam dynamics on distributed computational resources. We present the concepts and the design of the Virtual Accelerator, describe the prototype implementation and show early results.