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Message passing on the QCDSP supercomputer
The QCDSP machines were designed for lattice gauge calculations. For planning
it is crucial to explore this architecture for other computationally intensive
tasks. Here I describe an implementation of a simple message passing scheme.
With the objective being simplicity, I introduce a small number of generic
functions for manipulating a large data set spread over the machine. I test the
scheme on three applications: a fast Fourier transform, arbitrary dimension
SU(N) pure lattice gauge theory, and the manipulation of Fermionic Fock states
through a distributed hash table. These routines compile both on QCDSP and a
Unix workstation.Comment: LATTICE99(Algorithms and Machines) - 3 page
So you want to be a lattice theorist?
For this after dinner talk I intersperse images of real lattices with a
discussion of the motivations for lattice gauge theory and some current
unresolved issues.Comment: 6 pages, 7 figures. After dinner talk at Quark confinement and the
hadron spectrum VII, Ponta Delgada, Azores, Portugal, 2-7 September 200
Cellular automata and self-organized criticality
Cellular automata provide a fascinating class of dynamical systems capable of
diverse complex behavior. These include simplified models for many phenomena
seen in nature. Among other things, they provide insight into self-organized
criticality, wherein dissipative systems naturally drive themselves to a
critical state with important phenomena occurring over a wide range of length
and time scales.Comment: 23 pages, 12 figures (most in color); uses sprocl.tex; chapter
submitted for "Some new directions in science on computers," G. Bhanot, S.
Chen, and P. Seiden, ed
Xtoys: cellular automata on xwindows
Xtoys is a collection of xwindow programs for demonstrating simulations of
various statistical models. Included are xising, for the two dimensional Ising
model, xpotts, for the -state Potts model, xautomalab, for a fairly general
class of totalistic cellular automata, xsand, for the Bak-Tang-Wiesenfield
model of self organized criticality, and xfires, a simple forest fire
simulation. The programs should compile on any machine supporting xwindows.Comment: 4 pages, one figure, uuencoded compressed postscript Contribution to
Lattice '95 Also available at
http://penguin.phy.bnl.gov/www/papers/BNL-62123.ps.Z Programs available at
http://penguin.phy.bnl.gov/www/xtoys/xtoys.htm
Minimal doubling and point splitting
Minimally-doubled chiral fermions have the unusual property of a single local
field creating two fermionic species. Spreading the field over hypercubes
allows construction of combinations that isolate specific modes. Combining
these fields into bilinears produces meson fields of specific quantum numbers.Comment: 6 pages; poster contribution to The XXVIII International Symposium on
Lattice Field Theory Revised version corrects typo
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