Columbia Physics System 5.0.8 User Guide:              

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Columbia Physics System Documentation

5.0.8

User Guide

This is the user guide for the Columbia Physics System (CPS).

• Introduction
  • Explanation
  • Disclaimer
  • CPS basis
• Lattice actions in the CPS
  • Fermion actions
  • Gauge actions
  • Combined actions
• Algorithms in the CPS
  • The algorithms in general
  • Dynamical fermion algorithms
    • The HMC algorithm
    • The R algorithm
    • rhmc
  • remez
  • <Your favourite algorithm here>
• The CPS in more detail
  • Data
  • Data layout
    • The canonical layout
    • The Wilson/clover/domain wall layout
    • The staggered layout
    • The heatbath layout
    • Odd-even preconditioning
    • Access to data
    • Conversion between layouts
  • Parallelism
    • Grid decomposition
    • Communication
  • Random numbers
• User Interface
  • What goes in
  • What comes out
  • Filestore interface
  • Writing to files and standard output
• CPS programming
  • Language
    • C++ ideosyncrasies
  • Platforms and portability
    • QCDSP specific features
  • CPS programming conventions
    • Global variables
    • Standard IO
    • Memory allocation
    • Other things
  • Header files
  • CPS build structure
  • Testing a CPS program

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