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Red/Black or Checkerboard Update

Instead, the lattice is partitioned into a checkerboard of alternating red and black sites (note this can also be done for d>2 dimensions). Can then update all the black sites in parallel (since they are independent), followed by all the red sites in parallel.

This is known as a red/black or checkerboard update.

Note that unless there is more than one site per processor, the efficiency is at most 50% since half the processors will be idle.



Paul Coddington, Northeast Parallel Architectures Center at Syracuse University, paulc@npac.syr.edu