Task-based Parallel Computation of the Density Matrix in Quantum-based Molecular Dynamics using Graph Partitioning

Ghale, Purnima and Kroonblawd, Matthew P. and Mniszewski, Sue and Negre, Christian F. A. and Pavel, Robert and Pino, Sergio and Sardeshmukh, Vivek and Shi, Guangjie and Hahn, Georg (2017) Task-based Parallel Computation of the Density Matrix in Quantum-based Molecular Dynamics using Graph Partitioning. SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing, 39 (6). C466-C480. ISSN 1064-8275

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Abstract

Quantum-based molecular dynamics (QMD) is a highly accurate and transferable method for material science simulations. However, the time scales and system sizes accessible to QMD are typically limited to picoseconds and a few hundred atoms. These constraints arise due to expensive self-consistent ground-state electronic structure calculations that can often scale cubically with the number of atoms. Linearly scaling methods depend on computing the density matrix P from the Hamiltonian matrix H by exploiting the sparsity in both matrices. The second-order spectral projection (SP2) algorithm is an O(N) algorithm that computes P with a sequence of 40-50 matrix-matrix multiplications. In this paper, we present task-based implementations of a recently developed data-parallel graph-based approach to the SP2 algorithm, G-SP2. We represent the density matrix P as an undirected graph and use graph partitioning techniques to divide the computation into smaller independent tasks. The partitions thus obtained are generally not of equal size and give rise to undesirable load imbalances in standard MPI-based implementations. This load-balancing challenge can be mitigated by dynamically scheduling parallel computations at runtime using task-based programming models. We develop task-based implementations of the data-parallel G-SP2 algorithm using both Intel's Concurrent Collections (CnC) as well as the Charm++ programming model and evaluate these implementations for future use. Scaling and performance results of our implementations are investigated for representative segments of QMD simulations for solvated protein systems containing more than 10,000 atoms.

Item Type:
Journal Article
Journal or Publication Title:
SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing
Uncontrolled Keywords:
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Subjects:
?? quantum molecular dynamicsasynchronous parallel programmingcharm pluscncgraph partitioningdensity matrixelectronic-structure theoryprocessing unitsalgorithmsmetalsdecaycomputational mathematicsapplied mathematics ??
ID Code:
89722
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Deposited On:
22 Jan 2018 11:02
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Yes
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