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An Optimized Multiple Right-Hand Side Dslash Kernel For Intel Xeon Phi, Aaron Walden
An Optimized Multiple Right-Hand Side Dslash Kernel For Intel Xeon Phi, Aaron Walden
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Lattice quantum chromodynamics (LQCD) stands unique as the only computationally tractable, non-perturbative, and model-independent quantum field theory of the strong nuclear force. The computational core of LQCD is the Wilson Dslash operator, a nearest neighbor stencil operator summing matrix-vector multiplications over lattice points, whose performance is bandwidth-bound on most architectures. Reportedly, up to 90\% of LQCD running time may be spent computing Dslash. In recent years, efforts have been made by researchers to optimize LQCD calculations for floating point coprocessor cards such as GPUs and Intel Xeon Phi Knights Corner (KNC), which boast powerful vector processing units. Most of these …