Exercise 5: using chroma to generate SU(3) gauge configurations

Requirements

To perform this tutorial you will need to:

Log-on to a computer in the theoretical physics group using the LQCD-1 account.

Change to the course directory and make your own unique sub-directory. When you run the code and generate files, you should do this within your sub-directory.

All directories mentioned in the tutorial are given relative to the course directory.

You will be using the purgaug executable which can be found in the directory bin-no-heterio.

Throughout the tutorial any command to be executed on the command line will be highlighted in blue. For example:

The source code for this version of chroma can be found in the directory chroma.

Generating SU(3) gauge configurations

• Before you start look through the introductory slides on the chroma software package and generating gauge configurations: slides.
• The instructions for the tutorial are given here.