SU (2) lattice gauge theory simulations on Fermi GPUs

Journal of Computational Physics

Volumn 230, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 3998-4010

  Cardoso, Nuno ^a   Bicudo, Pedro ^a  

^a INSTITUTO SUPERIOR TÉCNICO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

CUDA; Fermi; GPU; SU (2) lattice gauge theory

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATION THEORY; LATTICE THEORY; MEMORY ARCHITECTURE; PROGRAM PROCESSORS;

CUDA; DEVICE ARCHITECTURES; DOUBLE PRECISION; FERMI; HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE ARCHITECTURES; LATTICE GAUGE THEORY; PERFORMANCE; PERFORMANCE COMPARISON; SINGLE PRECISION; SU (2) LATTICE GAUGE THEORY;

GRAPHICS PROCESSING UNIT;

EID: 79952898679     PISSN: 00219991     EISSN: 10902716     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcp.2011.02.023     Document Type: Article

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