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Comparison of Domain Wall Fermion Multigrid Methods

We present a detailed comparison of several recent and new approaches to multigrid solver algorithms suitable for the solution of 5d chiral fermion actions such as Domain Wall fermions in the Shamir formulation, and also for the Partial Fraction and Continued Fraction overlap. Our focus is on the acceleration of gauge configuration sampling, and a compact nearest neighbour stencil is required to limit the calculational cost of obtaining a coarse operator. This necessitates the coarsening of a nearest neighbour operator to preserve sparsity in coarsened grids, unlike HDCG. We compare the approaches of HDCR and the Multigrid algorithm and also several new hybrid schemes. In this work we introduce a new recursive Chebyshev polynomial based setup scheme. We find that the HDCR approach, can both setup, and solve standard Shamir Domain Wall Fermions faster than a single solve with red-black preconditioned Conjugate Gradients on large volumes and for modern GPU systems such as the Summit supercomputer. This is promising for the acceleration of HMC, particularly if setup costs are shared across multiple Hasenbusch determinant factors. The setup scheme is likely generally applicable to other Fermion actions.