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# A performance evaluation of CCS QCD Benchmark on the COMA (Intel(R) Xeon Phi$^{TM}$, KNC) system

@article{Boku2016APE,
title={A performance evaluation of CCS QCD Benchmark on the COMA (Intel(R) Xeon Phi\$^\{TM\}\$, KNC) system},
author={Taisuke Boku and K.-I. Ishikawa and Yoshinobu Kuramashi and Lawrence Meadows and Michael DMello and Maurice Troute and Ravi Vemuri},
journal={arXiv: High Energy Physics - Lattice},
year={2016}
}
• Published 20 December 2016
• Computer Science, Physics
• arXiv: High Energy Physics - Lattice
The most computationally demanding part of Lattice QCD simulations is solving quark propagators. Quark propagators are typically obtained with a linear equation solver utilizing HPC machines. The CCS QCD Benchmark is a benchmark program solving the Wilson-Clover quark propagator, and is developed at the Center for Computational Sciences (CCS), University of Tsukuba. We optimized the benchmark program for a \Intel \XeonPhi (Knights Corner, KNC) system named "COMA (PACS-IX)" at CCS Tsukuba under…
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