Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Lattice
Scientific paper
2009-11-17
Comput.Phys.Commun.181:1517-1528,2010
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Lattice
30 pages, 7 figures
Scientific paper
10.1016/j.cpc.2010.05.002
Modern graphics hardware is designed for highly parallel numerical tasks and promises significant cost and performance benefits for many scientific applications. One such application is lattice quantum chromodyamics (lattice QCD), where the main computational challenge is to efficiently solve the discretized Dirac equation in the presence of an SU(3) gauge field. Using NVIDIA's CUDA platform we have implemented a Wilson-Dirac sparse matrix-vector product that performs at up to 40 Gflops, 135 Gflops and 212 Gflops for double, single and half precision respectively on NVIDIA's GeForce GTX 280 GPU. We have developed a new mixed precision approach for Krylov solvers using reliable updates which allows for full double precision accuracy while using only single or half precision arithmetic for the bulk of the computation. The resulting BiCGstab and CG solvers run in excess of 100 Gflops and, in terms of iterations until convergence, perform better than the usual defect-correction approach for mixed precision.
Babich Ronald
Barros Kipton
Brower Richard C.
Clark Michael A.
Rebbi Claudio
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