System and methods for performing medical physics calculations

A method of determining distributions of energy deposition and fluence due to ionizing radiation comprising the steps of:

• accessing a cloud computing network by a medical provider network using a secure platform interface;
• uploading from the medical provider network to the cloud computing network a Monte Carlo task comprising calculation parameters including a patient anatomy and a beam configuration;
• determining by a master node of the cloud computing network a number of virtual nodes required for the Monte Carlo task, wherein the number of virtual nodes includes one or more additional virtual nodes determined by a threshold amount of 5%;
• distributing by the master node to each virtual node the calculation parameters;
• performing by each virtual node a portion of a Monte Carlo calculation using the calculation parameters to compute a dose calculation result;
• meeting a threshold value of 95% by the number of virtual nodes that completes the Monte Carlo calculation;
• aggregating by the master node all dose calculation results from each virtual node to obtain a final dose calculation result comprising a distribution of energy deposition, wherein the distribution of energy deposition includes one selected from the group comprising fluence due to ionizing radiation, physical energy absorbed per unit mass, and linear energy transfer (LET);
• storing the final dose calculation result in a data storage of the cloud computing network;
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• communicating by the cloud computing network to the medical provider network the final dose calculation result.