Lattice QCD thermodynamics on the grid

DOI10.1016/J.CPC.2010.06.027zbMATH Open1219.81245arXiv0911.5682OpenAlexW2028549022MaRDI QIDQ548978FDOQ548978

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

Publication date: 30 June 2011

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

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.

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)

Cites Work

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• The QCD phase diagram for small densities from imaginary chemical potential
• The chiral critical point in 3-flavour QCD

Cited In (5)

• Lattice quantum hadrodynamics on a CRAY Y-MP
• International lattice data grid
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• Lattice results on QCD thermodynamics
• Quantum simulation of chiral phase transitions

Uses Software

• DIANE
• Ganga

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