Lattice QCD thermodynamics on the grid

DOI10.1016/J.CPC.2010.06.027MaRDI QIDQ548978zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Jakub T. Mościcki, Maciej Woś, Massimo Lamanna, Philippe de Forcrand, Owe Philipsen

Publication date 30 June 2011

Published in Computer Physics Communications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0911.5682

zbMATH Keywords

grid computingQCD phase diagramlattice QCDtask schedulingheuristic resource selectionpilot jobs

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Multigrid methods; domain decomposition for boundary value problems involving PDEs (65N55) Classical and relativistic thermodynamics (80A10) Computational methods for problems pertaining to quantum theory (81-08) Strong interaction, including quantum chromodynamics (81V05) Quantum field theory on lattices (81T25)

Abstract: We describe how we have used simultaneously $calO(10^3)$ nodes of the EGEE Grid, accumulating ca. 300 CPU-years in 2-3 months, to determine an important property of Quantum Chromodynamics. We explain how Grid resources were exploited efficiently and with ease, using user-level overlay based on Ganga and DIANE tools above standard Grid software stack. Application-specific scheduling and resource selection based on simple but powerful heuristics allowed to improve efficiency of the processing to obtain desired scientific results by a specified deadline. This is also a demonstration of combined use of supercomputers, to calculate the initial state of the QCD system, and Grids, to perform the subsequent massively distributed simulations. The QCD simulation was performed on a $16^{3}imes4$ lattice. Keeping the strange quark mass at its physical value, we reduced the masses of the up and down quarks until, under an increase of temperature, the system underwent a second-order phase transition to a quark-gluon plasma. Then we measured the response of this system to an increase in the quark density. We find that the transition is smoothened rather than sharpened. If confirmed on a finer lattice, this finding makes it unlikely for ongoing experimental searches to find a QCD critical point at small chemical potential.

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• Large-scale deployment of two-color QCD simulations on the grid using Ganga
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• Lattice quantum hadrodynamics on a CRAY Y-MP
• Large-scale deployment of two-color QCD simulations on the grid using Ganga
• International lattice data grid
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• Lattice results on QCD thermodynamics
• Quantum simulation of chiral phase transitions

Describes a project that uses

Uses Software

• Ganga
• DIANE

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