Abstract
Abstract: Simulations of systems with quenched disorder are extremely demanding, suffering from the combined effect of slow relaxation and the need of performing the disorder average. As a consequence, new algorithms and improved implementations in combination with alternative and even purpose-built hardware are often instrumental for conducting meaningful studies of such systems. The ensuing demands regarding hardware availability and code complexity are substantial and sometimes prohibitive. We demonstrate how with a moderate coding effort leaving the overall structure of the simulation code unaltered as compared to a CPU implementation, very significant speed-ups can be achieved from a parallel code on GPU by mainly exploiting the trivial parallelism of the disorder samples and the near-trivial parallelism of the parallel tempering replicas. A combination of this massively parallel implementation with a careful choice of the temperature protocol for parallel tempering as well as efficient cluster updates allows us to equilibrate comparatively large systems with moderate computational resources. Graphical abstract: [Figure not available: see fulltext.].
Original language | English |
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Article number | 79 |
Journal | The European Physical Journal B - Condensed Matter and Complex Systems |
Volume | 93 |
Issue number | 5 |
Early online date | 4 May 2020 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - May 2020 |
Bibliographical note
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Funding
Funders | Funder number |
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Seventh Framework Programme | 612707 |
Keywords
- physics.comp-ph
- cond-mat.dis-nn
- cond-mat.stat-mech