First QCDNA: 1995

Workshop on Large Scale Computations and Lattice Quantum Chromodynamics

This workshop is partially supported by Center for Computational Sciences and Vice Chancellor for Research and Graduate Studies, University of Kentucky and the Institute for Mathematics and its Applications (IMA).

The organization committee: Z. Bai (Mathematics, University of Kentucky); T. Draper (Physics, University of Kentucky); T. Hayden (Mathematics, University of Kentucky); P. Hislop (Mathematics, University of Kentucky); G. Golub (Computer Science, Stanford University); and K. F. Liu (Physics, University of Kentucky).

Topics

  • Status of QCD Spectrum Calculations - Numerical and Computational Requirements.
  • Exploiting Structure of the Wilson Fermion Matrix in Krylov Subspace Methods.
  • Lanczos Methods.
  • Large Scale Computations.
  • The PZ Method for Estimating Determinate Ratios, with Applications.

Introductory Lectures

  • Introduction to Numerical Lattice QCD.
  • The Theory of Hybrid Stochastic Algorithms.
  • Some Large Scale Matrix Computation Problems
  • Designing High Performance Linear Algebra Software for Parallel Computers.
  • A Lanczos-Type Method for Multiple Starting Vectors and its USe in Large-Scale Matrix Computations