O(a)-improved QCD+QED Wilson Dirac operator on GPUs

Feb 4, 2025
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  • PoS LATTICE2024 (2025) 280
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  • Published: Feb 12, 2025
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Abstract: (SISSA)
Markov Chain Monte Carlo simulations of lattice Quantum Chromodynamics(QCD) are the only known tool to investigate non-perturbatively the theoryof the strong interaction and are required to perform precision tests ofthe Standard Model of Particle Physics.As the Markov Chain is a serial process, the sole option for improving the sampling rate is accelerating each individual update step.Heterogeneous clusters of GPU-accelerated nodes offer large total memorybandwidth which can be used to speed-up our application, openQxD-1.1,which is dominated by inversions of the Dirac operator, a large sparsematrix.In this work we investigate offloading the inversion to GPU using thelattice-QCD library QUDA, and our early results demonstrate a significantpotential speed-up in the time-to-solution for state-of-the-art problemsizes.Minimal extensions to the existing QUDA library are required for ourspecific physics programme while greatly enhancing the performanceportability of our code and retaining the reliability and robustness ofexisting applications in openQxD-1.1.Our new interface will enable us to utilize pre-exascale infrastructure andreduce the systematic uncertainty in our physics predictions byincorporating the effects of quantum electromagnetism (QED) in our simulations.