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FFT for the APE Parallel Computer

High Energy Physics - Lattice 2015-06-25 v1

Abstract

We present a parallel FFT algorithm for SIMD systems following the `Transpose Algorithm' approach. The method is based on the assignment of the data field onto a 1-dimensional ring of systolic cells. The systolic array can be universally mapped onto any parallel system. In particular for systems with next-neighbour connectivity our method has the potential to improve the efficiency of matrix transposition by use of hyper-systolic communication. We have realized a scalable parallel FFT on the APE100/Quadrics massively parallel computer, where our implementation is part of a 2-dimensional hydrodynamics code for turbulence studies. A possible generalization to 4-dimensional FFT is presented, having in mind QCD applications.

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@article{arxiv.hep-lat/9710060,
  title  = {FFT for the APE Parallel Computer},
  author = {Thomas Lippert and Klaus Schilling and Federico Toschi and Sven Trentmann and Raffaele Tripiccione},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-lat/9710060},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

17 pages, 13 figures, figures included