Title
GPU implementation of the linear scaling three dimensional fragment method for large scale electronic structure calculations.
Abstract
LS3DF, namely linear scaling three-dimensional fragment method, is an efficient linear scaling ab initio total energy electronic structure calculation code based on a divide-and-conquer strategy. In this paper, we present our GPU implementation of the LS3DF code. Our test results show that the GPU code can calculate systems with about ten thousand atoms fully self-consistently in the order of 10 min using thousands of computing nodes. This makes the electronic structure calculations of 10,000-atom nanosystems routine work. This speed is 4.5–6 times faster than the CPU calculations using the same number of nodes on the Titan machine in the Oak Ridge leadership computing facility (OLCF). Such speedup is achieved by (a) carefully re-designing of the computationally heavy kernels; (b) redesign of the communication pattern for heterogeneous supercomputers.
Year
DOI
Venue
2017
10.1016/j.cpc.2016.07.003
Computer Physics Communications
Keywords
Field
DocType
Electronic structure calculations,LS3DF,GPU
Electronic structure,Central processing unit,Computer science,Linear scale,Parallel computing,Computational science,Ab initio,Speedup
Journal
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
211
0010-4655
2
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.37
2
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Weile Jia1242.36
Jue Wang253.79
Xuebin Chi349141.21
Lin-Wang Wang414116.72