https://doi.org/10.1140/epjst/e2012-01642-y
Review
Computer simulations of the Ising Model on Graphics Processing Units
1 Department of Physics, Mathematics and Computer Science, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Staudingerweg 7, 55128 Mainz, Germany
2 Center for Polymer Studies, Department of Physics, Boston University, 590 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, MA 02215, USA
3 Department of Mathematics, University College London, Gower St, London WC1E 6BT, UK
4 Artemis Capital Asset Management GmbH, Gartenstr. 14, 65558 Holzheim, Germany
a e-mail: me@bblock.net
b e-mail: mail@tobiaspreis.de
Received:
30
April
2012
Revised:
25
June
2012
Published online:
6
September
2012
The aim of this review article is to give an introduction to implementations of the Ising model accelerated by Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) and to summarize different techniques that have been used and tested by different groups. Different parallelization schemes and algorithms are discussed and compared, technical details are pointed out and their performance potential is evaluated.
© EDP Sciences, Springer-Verlag, 2012
