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+ATLAS KV is a lightweight benchmark based on the GEANT4 simulation of the ATLAS detector.
+This workload simulates the propagation throughout the ATLAS detector of single muon events. 
+The application is based on Athena version v17.8.0.9, and is single process, it does not need input data.
+The score is obtained extracting the average CPU time spent by the application in simulating the events, after having excluded the initialisation phase.
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