arXiv · 1912.10024
A Data-Centric Approach to Extreme-Scale Ab initio Dissipative Quantum Transport Simulations
Abstract
The computational efficiency of a state of the art ab initio quantum transport (QT) solver, capable of revealing the coupled electro-thermal properties of atomically-resolved nano-transistors, has been improved by up to two orders of magnitude through a data centric reorganization of the application. The approach yields coarse-and fine-grained data-movement characteristics that can be used for performance and communication modeling, communication-avoidance, and dataflow transformations. The resulting code has been tuned for two top-6 hybrid supercomputers, reaching a sustained performance of 85.45 Pflop/s on 4,560 nodes of Summit (42.55% of the peak) in double precision, and 90.89 Pflop/s in mixed precision. These computational achievements enable the restructured QT simulator to treat realistic nanoelectronic devices made of more than 10,000 atoms within a 14$\times$ shorter duration than the original code needs to handle a system with 1,000 atoms, on the same number of CPUs/GPUs and with the same physical accuracy.
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Alexandros Nikolaos Ziogas, Tal Ben-Nun, Guillermo Indalecio Fernández, Timo Schneider, Mathieu Luisier, Torsten Hoefler. 2019-12-18. A Data-Centric Approach to Extreme-Scale Ab initio Dissipative Quantum Transport Simulations. https://doi.org/10.1145/3295500.3357156
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