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Suppressing correlations in massively parallel simulations of lattice models

Computational Physics 2017-12-19 v2 Statistical Mechanics

Abstract

For lattice Monte Carlo simulations parallelization is crucial to make studies of large systems and long simulation time feasible, while sequential simulations remain the gold-standard for correlation-free dynamics. Here, various domain decomposition schemes are compared, concluding with one which delivers virtually correlation-free simulations on GPU Extensive simulations of the octahedron model for 2+12+1 dimensional Karda--Parisi--Zhang surface growth, which is very sensitive to correlation in the site-selection dynamics, were performed to show self-consistency of the parallel runs and agreement with the sequential algorithm. We present a GPU implementation providing a speedup of about 30×30\times over a parallel CPU implementation on a single socket and at least 180×180\times with respect to the sequential reference.

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@article{arxiv.1705.01022,
  title  = {Suppressing correlations in massively parallel simulations of lattice models},
  author = {Jeffrey Kelling and Géza Ódor and Sibylle Gemming},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1705.01022},
  year   = {2017}
}

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9 pages, 7 figures