Authors
Citation
S. Bae et al., PARALLEL WOLFF CLUSTER ALGORITHMS, International journal of modern physics C, 6(2), 1995, pp. 197-210
Citations number
43
Categorie Soggetti
Mathematical Method, Physical Science","Physycs, Mathematical","Computer Science Interdisciplinary Applications
Journal title
ISSN journal
01291831
Volume
6
Issue
2
Year of publication
1995
Pages
197 - 210
Database
ISI
SICI code
0129-1831(1995)6:2<197:PWCA>2.0.ZU;2-T
Abstract
The Wolff single-cluster algorithm is the most efficient method known
for Monte Carlo simulation of many spin models. Due to the irregular s
ize, shape and position of the Wolff clusters, this method does not ea
sily lend itself to efficient parallel implementation, so that simulat
ions using this method have thus far been confined to workstations and
vector machines. Here we present two parallel implementations of this
algorithm, and show that one gives fairly good performance on a MIMD
parallel computer.