Multi-mass solvers for lattice QCD on GPUs

DOI10.1016/J.JCP.2011.11.003zbMATH Open1245.81294arXiv1103.5103OpenAlexW2109030497MaRDI QIDQ423009FDOQ423009

Authors: A. Alexandru, C. Pelissier, B. Gamari, Frank X. Lee 

Publication date: 18 May 2012

Published in: Journal of Computational Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Graphical Processing Units (GPUs) are more and more frequently used for lattice QCD calculations. Lattice studies often require computing the quark propagators for several masses. These systems can be solved using multi-shift inverters but these algorithms are memory intensive which limits the size of the problem that can be solved using GPUs. In this paper, we show how to efficiently use a memory-lean single-mass inverter to solve multi-mass problems. We focus on the BiCGstab algorithm for Wilson fermions and show that the single-mass inverter not only requires less memory but also outperforms the multi-shift variant by a factor of two.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1103.5103

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zbMATH Keywords

GPUBiCGstabBiCGstab-M

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Strong interaction, including quantum chromodynamics (81V05) Quantum field theory on lattices (81T25) Graphical methods in numerical analysis (65S05)

Cites Work

• Parallel iterative methods for sparse linear systems
• Bi-CGSTAB: A Fast and Smoothly Converging Variant of Bi-CG for the Solution of Nonsymmetric Linear Systems
• Solving lattice QCD systems of equations using mixed precision solvers on GPUs

Cited In (6)

• Portable CPU implementation of Wilson, Brillouin and Susskind fermions in lattice QCD
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• Coulomb, Landau and maximally abelian gauge fixing in lattice QCD with multi-gpus
• Lattice QCD based on OpenCL
• Solving lattice QCD systems of equations using mixed precision solvers on GPUs
• SU(2) lattice gauge theory simulations on Fermi GPUs

Uses Software

• CUDA
• Thrust
• QUDA

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