GPU acceleration of the locally selfconsistent multiple scattering code for first principles calculation of the ground state and statistical physics of materials

Markus Eisenbach, Jeff Larkin, Justin Lutjens, Steven Rennich, James H. Rogers

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Abstract

The Locally Self-consistent Multiple Scattering (LSMS) code solves the first principles Density Functional theory Kohn-Sham equation for a wide range of materials with a special focus on metals, alloys and metallic nano-structures. It has traditionally exhibited near perfect scalability on massively parallel high performance computer architectures. We present our efforts to exploit GPUs to accelerate the LSMS code to enable first principles calculations of O(100,000) atoms and statistical physics sampling of finite temperature properties. Using the Cray XK7 system Titan at the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility we achieve a sustained performance of 14.5PFlop/s and a speedup of 8.6 compared to the CPU only code.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationBig Data Technology and Applications - 1st National Conference, BDTA 2015, Proceedings
EditorsGansen Zhao, Zeguang Lu, Wenguang Chen, Guisheng Yin, Qilong Han, Weipeng Jing, Guanglu Sun
PublisherSpringer Verlag
Pages259-268
Number of pages10
ISBN (Print)9789811004568
DOIs
StatePublished - 2016
Event1st National Conference on Big Data Technology and Applications, BDTA 2015 - Harbin, China
Duration: Dec 25 2015Dec 26 2015

Publication series

NameCommunications in Computer and Information Science
Volume590
ISSN (Print)1865-0929

Conference

Conference1st National Conference on Big Data Technology and Applications, BDTA 2015
Country/TerritoryChina
CityHarbin
Period12/25/1512/26/15

Funding

This work has been sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, Basic Energy Sciences, Material Sciences and Engineering Division (basic theory and applications) and by the Office of Advanced Scientific Computing (software optimization and performance measurements). This research used resources of the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility, which is supported by the Office of Science of the U.S. Department of Energy under contract no. DE-AC05-00OR22725 .

FundersFunder number
U.S. Department of Energy
Office of Science
Basic Energy Sciences
Advanced Scientific Computing Research

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