DeepThermo: Deep Learning Accelerated Parallel Monte Carlo Sampling for Thermodynamics Evaluation of High Entropy Alloys

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Abstract

Since the introduction of Metropolis Monte Carlo (MC) sampling, it and its variants have become standard tools used for thermodynamics evaluations of physical systems. However, a long-standing problem that hinders the effectiveness and efficiency of MC sampling is the lack of a generic method (a.k.a. MC proposal) to update the system configurations. Consequently, current practices are not scalable. Here we propose a parallel MC sampling framework for thermodynamics evaluation - DeepThermo. By using deep learning-based MC proposals that can globally update the system configurations, we show that DeepThermo can effectively evaluate the phase transition behaviors of high entropy alloys, which have an astronomical configuration space. For the first time, we directly evaluate a density of states expanding over a range of ~e10,000 for a real material. We also demonstrate DeepThermo's performance and scalability up to 3,000 GPUs on both NVIDIA V100 and AMD MI250X-based supercomputers.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings - 2023 IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium, IPDPS 2023
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages333-343
Number of pages11
ISBN (Electronic)9798350337662
DOIs
StatePublished - 2023
Event37th IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium, IPDPS 2023 - St. Petersburg, United States
Duration: May 15 2023May 19 2023

Publication series

NameProceedings - 2023 IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium, IPDPS 2023

Conference

Conference37th IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium, IPDPS 2023
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CitySt. Petersburg
Period05/15/2305/19/23

Funding

This research was sponsored by and used resources of the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility (OLCF), which is a DOE Office of Science User Facility at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory supported by the U.S. Department of Energy under Contract No. DE-AC05-00OR22725. This manuscript has been co-authored by UT-Battelle, LLC, under contract DE-AC05-00OR22725 with the US Department of Energy (DOE). The US government retains and the publisher, by accepting the article for publication, acknowledges that the US government retains a nonexclusive, paid-up, irrevocable, worldwide license to publish or reproduce the published form of this manuscript, or allow others to do so, for US government purposes. DOE will provide public access to these results of federally sponsored research in accordance with the DOE Public Access Plan (http://energy.gov/downloads/doe-public-access-plan).

FundersFunder number
U.S. Department of EnergyDE-AC05-00OR22725
Office of Science

    Keywords

    • Deep Learning
    • High Entropy Alloy
    • Monte Carlo Method

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