Some special needs for Lattice Gauge Theory

[Norbert Nemec]

Hi there,

I'm just starting with my physics diploma which is about numerical
lattice gauge theory (some pretty fundamental stuff)

So far I have started looking into POOMA as a tool and it seems to fit
my needs extremely well. Anyhow, there are a few special things I could
not find so far. I'm willing and capable to implement them myself and
I'm also willing to contribute to the POOMA project. Still, before I
start digging into the matters, I'd like to know whether there already
are people who have experience in that field or might even have done
some work on it.

The things I need are:
* 4 dimensional fields in euclidean space-time (I assume that's just gonna
  be some copy-and-paste work)
* extensive use of random-number-generators (RNGComponent fits most of my needs)
* some kind of stencils with more than one input field (to allow the use of
  per-site-RNG within the stencil)

Much of the stuff would probably be implementable without any changes to the 
POOMA sources, but the kind of work I'm preparing for demands some kind of 
abstraction
of different field types (U(1), SU(N), gaugefields, scalar fields, vector 
fields) and
algorithms (Metropolis, and more specialized Monte Carlo methods)

Any ideas and cooperation are very welcome. I'm pretty serious about investing 
some
time and others will hopefully have some profit from it, too.

Ciao,
Nobbi

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