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| Title | Efficient Implementation Of Quantum Materials Simulations On Distributed CPU-GPU Systems |
| Publication Type | Conference Paper |
| Year of Publication | 2015 |
| Authors | Solcà, R., A. Kozhevnikov, A. Haidar, S. Tomov, T. C. Schulthess, and J. Dongarra |
| Conference Name | The International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis (SC15) |
| Date Published | 2015-11 |
| Publisher | ACM |
| Conference Location | Austin, TX |
| Abstract | We present a scalable implementation of the Linearized Augmented Plane Wave method for distributed memory systems, which relies on an efficient distributed, block-cyclic setup of the Hamiltonian and overlap matrices and allows us to turn around highly accurate 1000+ atom all-electron quantum materials simulations on clusters with a few hundred nodes. The implementation runs efficiently on standard multicore CPU nodes, as well as hybrid CPU-GPU nodes. The key for the latter is a novel algorithm to solve the generalized eigenvalue problem for dense, complex Hermitian matrices on distributed hybrid CPU-GPU systems. Performance tests for Li-intercalated CoO2 supercells containing 1501 atoms demonstrate that high-accuracy, transferable quantum simulations can now be used in throughput materials search problems. While our application can benefit and get scalable performance through CPU-only libraries like ScaLAPACK or ELPA2, our new hybrid solver enables the efficient use of GPUs and shows that a hybrid CPU-GPU architecture scales to a desired performance using substantially fewer cluster nodes, and notably, is considerably more energy efficient than the traditional multicore CPU only systems for such complex applications. |
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