Title
Simulating the weak death of the neutron in a femtoscale universe with near-Exascale computing.
Abstract
The fundamental particle theory called Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD) dictates everything about protons and neutrons, from their intrinsic properties to interactions that bind them into atomic nuclei. Quantities that cannot be fully resolved through experiment, such as the neutron lifetime (whose precise value is important for the existence of light-atomic elements that make the sun shine and life possible), may be understood through numerical solutions to QCD. We directly solve QCD using Lattice Gauge Theory and calculate nuclear observables such as neutron lifetime. We have developed an improved algorithm that expoentially decreases the time-to-solution and applied it on the new CORAL supercomputers, Sierra and Summit. We use run-time autotuning to distribute GPU resources, achieving 20% performance at low node count. We also developed optimal application mapping through a job manager, which allows CPU and GPU jobs to be interleaved, yielding 15% of peak performance when deployed across large fractions of CORAL.
Year
DOI
Venue
2018
10.1109/SC.2018.00058
SC
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Neutrons,Lattices,Kernel,Physics,Protons,Graphics processing units,Mathematical model
Conference
abs/1810.01609
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
978-1-4503-6229-0
1
0.37
References 
Authors
2
12