19 research outputs found
Gauge fixing using overrelaxation and simulated annealing on GPUs
We adopt CUDA-capable Graphic Processing Units (GPUs) for Coulomb, Landau and
maximally Abelian gauge fixing in 3+1 dimensional SU(3) lattice gauge field
theories. The local overrelaxation algorithm is perfectly suited for highly
parallel architectures. Simulated annealing preconditioning strongly increases
the probability to reach the global maximum of the gauge functional. We give
performance results for single and double precision. To obtain our maximum
performance of ~300 GFlops on NVIDIA's GTX 580 a very fine grained degree of
parallelism is required due to the register limits of NVIDIA's Fermi GPUs: we
use eight threads per lattice site, i.e., one thread per SU(3) matrix that is
involved in the computation of a site update.Comment: 7 pages, 2 figures. Talk presented at the 30th International
Symposium on Lattice Field Theory, June 24-29, 2012, Cairns, Australi
cuLGT: Lattice Gauge Fixing on GPUs
We adopt CUDA-capable Graphic Processing Units (GPUs) for Landau, Coulomb and
maximally Abelian gauge fixing in 3+1 dimensional SU(3) and SU(2) lattice gauge
field theories. A combination of simulated annealing and overrelaxation is used
to aim for the global maximum of the gauge functional. We use a fine grained
degree of parallelism to achieve the maximum performance: instead of the common
1 thread per site strategy we use 4 or 8 threads per lattice site. Here, we
report on an improved version of our publicly available code (www.cuLGT.com and
github.com/culgt) which again increases performance and is much easier to
include in existing code. On the GeForce GTX 580 we achieve up to 470 GFlops
(utilizing 80% of the theoretical peak bandwidth) for the Landau overrelaxation
code.Comment: 6 pages, 2 figures, code available on cuLGT.com and github.com/culgt,
talk presented at GPU Computing in High Energy Physics, September 10-12,
2014, Pisa, Ital
Unbreaking chiral symmetry
In Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD) the eigenmodes of the Dirac operator with
small absolute eigenvalues have a close relationship to the dynamical breaking
of the chiral symmetry. In a simulation with two dynamical quarks, we study the
behavior of meson propagators when removing increasingly more of those modes in
the valence sector, thus partially removing effects of chiral symmetry
breaking. We find that some of the symmetry aspects are restored (e.g., the
masses of and approach each other) while confining properties
persist.Comment: 5 pages, 5 figures (figure added, references updated
The chirally improved quark propagator and restoration of chiral symmetry
The chirally improved (CI) quark propagator in Landau gauge is calculated in
two flavor lattice Quantum Chromodynamics. Its wave-function renormalization
function and mass function are studied. To minimize lattice
artifacts, tree-level improvement of the propagator and tree-level correction
of the lattice dressing functions is applied. Subsequently the CI quark
propagator under Dirac operator low-mode removal is investigated. The
dynamically generated mass in the infrared domain of the mass function is found
to dissolve continuously as a function of the reduction level and strong
suppression of for small momenta is observed.Comment: 9 pages, 8 figures; accepted at Phys. Lett.