Massively parallel multicanonical simulations

DOI10.1016/J.CPC.2017.10.018MaRDI QIDQ6096971zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Jonathan Gross, J. Zierenberg, Martin Weigel, Wolfhard Janke

Publication date 9 June 2023

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1707.00919

zbMATH Keywords

Ising modelparallel computingMonte Carlo simulationsGPUmulticanonical

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Monte Carlo methods (65C05) Parallel numerical computation (65Y05)

Abstract: Generalized-ensemble Monte Carlo simulations such as the multicanonical method and similar techniques are among the most efficient approaches for simulations of systems undergoing discontinuous phase transitions or with rugged free- energy landscapes. As Markov chain methods, they are inherently serial computationally. It was demonstrated recently, however, that a combination of independent simulations that communicate weight updates at variable intervals allows for the efficient utilization of parallel computational resources for multicanonical simulations. Implementing this approach for the many-thread architecture provided by current generations of graphics processing units (GPUs), we show how it can be efficiently employed with of the order of $10^4$ parallel walkers and beyond, thus constituting a versatile tool for Monte Carlo simulations in the era of massively parallel computing. We provide the fully documented source code for the approach applied to the paradigmatic example of the two-dimensional Ising model as starting point and reference for practitioners in the field.

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