26 July 2026 to 1 August 2026
University of Maryland, College Park
US/Eastern timezone

Toward Compute-Bound Lattice-QCD Software

27 Jul 2026, 14:20
20m
Crossland (Adele H. Stamp Student Union)

Crossland

Adele H. Stamp Student Union

3972 Campus Dr, College Park, MD 20742
Contributed talk Software development and machines Software development and machines

Speaker

Anthony Grebe (University of Maryland, College Park)

Description

Historically, the cost of lattice-QCD calculations was dominated by applications of the Dslash matrix on a single right-hand side, which is constrained by memory-bandwidth limits to run at a small fraction (10-20%) of the available processing power.  The advent of multigrid methods and multi-right-hand-side solvers mean that these limits are no longer the binding constraints they once were.  Additionally, for nuclear physics calculations, a substantial fraction of the total computational cost is in the contractions of quark propagators into correlation functions.  I will present software developments that I have made to help accelerate these, and I will also discuss the role of generative AI in this code development.

Author

Anthony Grebe (University of Maryland, College Park)

Presentation materials