Landau gauge fixing on GPUs

Computer Physics Communications

Volumn 184, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 124-129

  Cardoso, Nuno ^a   Silva, Paulo J ^b   Bicudo, Pedro ^a   Oliveira, Orlando ^b  

^a INSTITUTO SUPERIOR TÉCNICO   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COIMBRA   (Portugal)

Author keywords

CUDA; Gauge fixing; GPU; Landau; Lattice gauge theory; SU(3)

Indexed keywords

CUDA; GPU; LANDAU; LATTICE GAUGE THEORY; SU(3);

PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY; PHYSICS;

PROGRAM PROCESSORS;

EID: 84867572184     PISSN: 00104655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cpc.2012.09.007     Document Type: Article

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