Towards Electronic Structure-Based Ab-Initio Molecular Dynamics Simulations with Hundreds of Millions of Atoms

R. Schade, T. Kenter, H. Elgabarty, M. Lass, O. Schütt, A. Lazzaro, H. Pabst, S. Mohr, J. Hutter, T.D. Kühne, C. Plessl, ArXiv:2104.08245 (2021).

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Schade, Robert; Kenter, Tobias; Elgabarty, Hossam; Lass, Michael; Schütt, Ole; Lazzaro, Alfio; Pabst, Hans; Mohr, Stephan; Hutter, Jürg; Kühne, Thomas D.; Plessl, Christian
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We push the boundaries of electronic structure-based \textit{ab-initio} molecular dynamics (AIMD) beyond 100 million atoms. This scale is otherwise barely reachable with classical force-field methods or novel neural network and machine learning potentials. We achieve this breakthrough by combining innovations in linear-scaling AIMD, efficient and approximate sparse linear algebra, low and mixed-precision floating-point computation on GPUs, and a compensation scheme for the errors introduced by numerical approximations. The core of our work is the non-orthogonalized local submatrix method (NOLSM), which scales very favorably to massively parallel computing systems and translates large sparse matrix operations into highly parallel, dense matrix operations that are ideally suited to hardware accelerators. We demonstrate that the NOLSM method, which is at the center point of each AIMD step, is able to achieve a sustained performance of 324 PFLOP/s in mixed FP16/FP32 precision corresponding to an efficiency of 67.7% when running on 1536 NVIDIA A100 GPUs.
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Schade R, Kenter T, Elgabarty H, et al. Towards Electronic Structure-Based Ab-Initio Molecular Dynamics  Simulations with Hundreds of Millions of Atoms. arXiv:210408245. Published online 2021.
Schade, R., Kenter, T., Elgabarty, H., Lass, M., Schütt, O., Lazzaro, A., Pabst, H., Mohr, S., Hutter, J., Kühne, T. D., & Plessl, C. (2021). Towards Electronic Structure-Based Ab-Initio Molecular Dynamics  Simulations with Hundreds of Millions of Atoms. In arXiv:2104.08245.
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Schade, Robert, Tobias Kenter, Hossam Elgabarty, Michael Lass, Ole Schütt, Alfio Lazzaro, Hans Pabst, et al. “Towards Electronic Structure-Based Ab-Initio Molecular Dynamics  Simulations with Hundreds of Millions of Atoms.” ArXiv:2104.08245, 2021.
R. Schade et al., “Towards Electronic Structure-Based Ab-Initio Molecular Dynamics  Simulations with Hundreds of Millions of Atoms,” arXiv:2104.08245. 2021.
Schade, Robert, et al. “Towards Electronic Structure-Based Ab-Initio Molecular Dynamics  Simulations with Hundreds of Millions of Atoms.” ArXiv:2104.08245, 2021.

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