Scaling lattice QCD beyond 100 GPUs

Proceedings of 2011 SC - International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages

  Babich, R ^a   Clark, M A ^b   Joo B ^c   Shi, G ^d   Brower, R C ^a   Gottlieb, S ^e  

^a Boston University   (United States)

^b HARVARD SMITHSONIAN CENTER FOR ASTROPHYSICS   (United States)

^c THOMAS JEFFERSON NATIONAL ACCELERATOR FACILITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^e INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Domain decomposition; GPU; Krylov solvers; Lattice QCD

Indexed keywords

DIRAC OPERATORS; DISCRETIZATIONS; DOMAIN DECOMPOSITIONS; GAUGE FIELDS; GPU; GRAPHICS PROCESSING UNITS; KRYLOV SOLVERS; LATTICE QCD; LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORIES; MONTE CARLO; NUMERICAL LATTICES; PARALLELIZATION STRATEGIES; PRECONDITIONERS;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION; DOMAIN DECOMPOSITION METHODS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; QUANTUM THEORY;

PROGRAM PROCESSORS;

EID: 83155193227     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2063384.2063478     Document Type: Conference Paper

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