SU(2) lattice gauge theory simulations on Fermi GPUs

DOI10.1016/J.JCP.2011.02.023MaRDI QIDQ544577zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Nuno Cardoso, Pedro J. de A. Bicudo

Publication date 15 June 2011

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1010.4834

zbMATH Keywords

CUDAGPUFermiSU(2) lattice gauge theory

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Monte Carlo methods (65C05) Nuclear physics (81V35) Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13) Strong interaction, including quantum chromodynamics (81V05) Quantum field theory on lattices (81T25)

Abstract: In this work we explore the performance of CUDA in quenched lattice SU(2) simulations. CUDA, NVIDIA Compute Unified Device Architecture, is a hardware and software architecture developed by NVIDIA for computing on the GPU. We present an analysis and performance comparison between the GPU and CPU in single and double precision. Analyses with multiple GPUs and two different architectures (G200 and Fermi architectures) are also presented. In order to obtain a high performance, the code must be optimized for the GPU architecture, i.e., an implementation that exploits the memory hierarchy of the CUDA programming model. We produce codes for the Monte Carlo generation of SU(2) lattice gauge configurations, for the mean plaquette, for the Polyakov Loop at finite T and for the Wilson loop. We also present results for the potential using many configurations ($50000$) without smearing and almost $2000$ configurations with APE smearing. With two Fermi GPUs we have achieved an excellent performance of $200imes$ the speed over one CPU, in single precision, around 110 Gflops/s. We also find that, using the Fermi architecture, double precision computations for the static quark-antiquark potential are not much slower (less than $2imes$ slower) than single precision computations.

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Uses Software

• cuRAND
• CUDA

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