Monte Carlo simulations on Graphics Processing Units
High Energy Physics - Lattice
2009-03-30 v2
Abstract
Implementation of basic local Monte-Carlo algorithms on ATI Graphics Processing Units (GPU) is investigated. The Ising model and pure SU(2) gluodynamics simulations are realized with the Compute Abstraction Layer (CAL) of ATI Stream environment using the Metropolis and the heat-bath algorithms, respectively. We present an analysis of both CAL programming model and the efficiency of the corresponding simulation algorithms on GPU. In particular, the significant performance speed-up of these algorithms in comparison with serial execution is observed.
Cite
@article{arxiv.0903.3053,
title = {Monte Carlo simulations on Graphics Processing Units},
author = {Vadim Demchik and Alexei Strelchenko},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0903.3053},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
15 pages, 4 figures, 2 tables