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Title: Plane-wave electronic-structure calculations on a parallel supercomputer

Journal Article · · Physical Review, B: Condensed Matter; (United States)
 [1]; ;  [2]
  1. Semiconductor Physics Division, 1112, Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, New Mexico 87185 (United States)
  2. Parallel Computational Science Division, 1421, Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, New Mexico 87185 (United States)

We present a detailed description of the implementation on a parallel supercomputer (hypercube) of the first-order equation-of-motion solution to Schroedinger's equation, using plane-wave basis functions and [ital ab] [ital initio] separable pseudopotentials. By distributing the plane waves across the processors of the hypercube many of the computations can be performed in parallel, resulting in decreases in the overall computation time relative to conventional vector supercomputers. This partitioning also provides ample memory for large fast-Fourier-transform (FFT) meshes and the storage of plane-wave coefficients for many hundreds of energy bands. The usefulness of the parallel techniques is demonstrated by benchmark timings for both the FFT's and iterations of the self-consistent solution of Schroedinger's equation for different sized Si unit cells of up to 512 atoms.

DOE Contract Number:
AC04-76DP00789
OSTI ID:
6830597
Journal Information:
Physical Review, B: Condensed Matter; (United States), Vol. 47:4; ISSN 0163-1829
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English