Title
Coupled cluster algorithms for networks of shared memory parallel processors
Abstract
As the popularity of using SMP systems as the building blocks for high performance supercomputers increases, so too increases the need for applications that can utilize the multiple levels of parallelism available in clusters of SMPs. This paper presents a dual-layer distributed algorithm, using both shared-memory and distributed-memory techniques to parallelize a very important algorithm (often called the “gold standard”) used in computational chemistry, the single and double excitation coupled cluster method with perturbative triples, i.e. CCSD(T). The algorithm is presented within the framework of the GAMESS [M.W. Schmidt, K.K. Baldridge, J.A. Boatz, S.T. Elbert, M.S. Gordon, J.J. Jensen, S. Koseki, N. Matsunaga, K.A. Nguyen, S. Su, T.L. Windus, M. Dupuis, J.A. Montgomery, General atomic and molecular electronic structure system, J. Comput. Chem. 14 (1993) 1347–1363]. (General Atomic and Molecular Electronic Structure System) program suite and the Distributed Data Interface [M.W. Schmidt, G.D. Fletcher, B.M. Bode, M.S. Gordon, The distributed data interface in GAMESS, Comput. Phys. Comm. 128 (2000) 190]. (DDI), however, the essential features of the algorithm (data distribution, load-balancing and communication overhead) can be applied to more general computational problems. Timing and performance data for our dual-level algorithm is presented on several large-scale clusters of SMPs.
Year
DOI
Venue
2007
10.1016/j.cpc.2007.03.001
Computer Physics Communications
Keywords
Field
DocType
02.70.-c,31.10.+z,31.15.Ar,31.15.Dv,31.25.-v
Cluster (physics),Computational problem,Shared memory,Computer science,Parallel algorithm,Parallel computing,Algorithm,Distributed algorithm,GAMESS,Coupled cluster,Perturbation theory (quantum mechanics)
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
176
9
0010-4655
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
6
1.01
2
Authors
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Jonathan L. Bentz1132.61
Ryan M. Olson2625.67
Mark S. Gordon328325.73
Michael W. Schmidt48111.56
Ricky A. Kendall56712.26