https://doi.org/10.1140/epjst/e2012-01644-9
Regular Article
Optimized GPU simulation of continuous-spin glass models
1 Institut für Physik, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, Staudinger Weg 7, 55099 Mainz, Germany
2 Applied Mathematics Research Centre, Coventry University, Coventry CV1 5FB, UK
Received:
30
April
2012
Revised:
25
June
2012
Published online:
6
September
2012
We develop a highly optimized code for simulating the Edwards-Anderson Heisenberg model on graphics processing units (GPUs). Using a number of computational tricks such as tiling, data compression and appropriate memory layouts, the simulation code combining over-relaxation, heat bath and parallel tempering moves achieves a peak performance of 0.29 ns per spin update on realistic system sizes, corresponding to a more than 150 fold speed-up over a serial CPU reference implementation. The optimized implementation is used to study the spin-glass transition in a random external magnetic field to probe the existence of a de Almeida-Thouless line in the model, for which we give benchmark results.
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