Software Development for UKQCD
Lead Research Organisation:
Swansea University
Department Name: College of Science
Abstract
The strong interactions of quarks and gluons appear to result in their permanent confinement into bound states called hadrons, such as the proton and pion, and to be described by a quantum field theory called QCD. Experimental measurements seeking to determine the properties of quarks and gluons must, instead, be carried out on hadrons and related to them by theorectical calculations in QCD. The complexity of QCD demands its simulation using the highest performance computers, often developed specially for the purpose. This large-scale computational effort is typically carried out by international collaborations who are developing open-source community codes that run efficiently on a range of computing platforms for this work. The UKQCD Collaboration has united UK research in this field since 1989 and is one of the leading groups world-wide. In addition to its diverse physics programme, UKQCD has contributed to the development of world-leading hardware, software and data management tools. This proposal will enhance the functionality and performance of an international community code base to enable it to run efficiently on multi-core processors, and to extend the range of physics that can be simulated to include the charm quark, systems at non-zero density and new theories of physics at a more fundamental scale, signals of which might be discovered at the Large Hadron Collider.
Organisations
Publications
Bursa F
(2011)
Improved lattice spectroscopy of minimal walking technicolor
in Physical Review D
Kerrane E.
(2010)
Improved lattice spectroscopy of minimal walking technicolor
in Proceedings of Science
Description | Parallelisation and improvement of existing code for lattice gauge theories. |
Exploitation Route | HPC community. Release of BSMBench software. |
Sectors | Digital/Communication/Information Technologies (including Software) Other |
URL | http://www.bsmbench.org |
Description | The resulting code has been the basis for the extraction of a benchmarking tool for supercomputers. |
First Year Of Impact | 2011 |
Sector | Digital/Communication/Information Technologies (including Software) |
Impact Types | Economic |
Title | BSMBench |
Description | BSMBench is a benchmarking tool for High Performance Computing derived from lattice studies of strongly interacting dynamics beyond the standard model. It is available at http://www.bsmbench.org. |
Type Of Material | Computer model/algorithm |
Year Produced | 2012 |
Provided To Others? | Yes |
Impact | The code has been used in industry to test (e.g. by IBM) and monitor the health (e.g. HPC Wales) of hardware HPC platforms. |
URL | http://www.bsmbench.org |