Accelerating nuclear configuration interaction calculations through a preconditioned block iterative eigensolver
- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States). Computational Research Division
- Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI (United States). Department of Computer Science and Engineering
- Iowa State University, Ames, IA (United States). Department of Physics and Astronomy
We describe a number of recently developed techniques for improving the performance of large-scalenuclear configuration interaction calculations on high performance parallel computers. We show thebenefit of using a preconditioned block iterative method to replace the Lanczos algorithm that hastraditionally been used to perform this type of computation. The rapid convergence of the block iterativemethod is achieved by a proper choice of starting guesses of the eigenvectors and the construction of aneffective preconditioner. These acceleration techniques take advantage of special structure of the nuclearconfiguration interaction problem which we discuss in detail. The use of a block method also allows usto improve the concurrency of the computation, and take advantage of the memory hierarchy of modernmicroprocessors to increase the arithmetic intensity of the computation relative to data movement. Wealso discuss the implementation details that are critical to achieving high performance on massivelyparallel multi-core supercomputers, and demonstrate that the new block iterative solver is two to threetimes faster than the Lanczos based algorithm for problems of moderate sizes on a Cray XC30 system.
- Research Organization:
- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States). National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), Advanced Scientific Computing Research (ASCR)
- DOE Contract Number:
- DESC0008485; FG02-87ER40371; AC02-05CH11231
- OSTI ID:
- 1463273
- Journal Information:
- Computer Physics Communications, Vol. 222, Issue C; ISSN 0010-4655
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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