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Area of Science:

  • Computational Chemistry
  • Quantum Physics
  • High-Performance Computing

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  • Recent interest in deploying ab initio Density Matrix Renormalization Group (DMRG) computations on high-performance computing (HPC) platforms.
  • Conventional distributed memory ab initio DMRG algorithms face challenges in efficiency and scalability.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To introduce a reformulated ab initio DMRG algorithm.
  • To connect the conventional algorithm to the sum of the sub-Hamiltonian approach for improved conceptual simplicity and performance.
  • To explore and implement a hierarchy of parallelism strategies.

Main Methods:

  • Reformulation of the conventional distributed memory ab initio DMRG algorithm.
  • Integration with the sum of the sub-Hamiltonian approach.
  • Implementation of parallelism strategies: sum of sub-Hamiltonians, sites, operators, symmetry sectors, and dense matrix multiplications.
  • Techniques to reduce processor load imbalance and communication costs.

Main Results:

  • Demonstration of an open-source implementation of the reformulated algorithm.
  • Performance illustration on benchmark calculations: benzene (108 orbitals, 30 electrons, bond dimension 6000) and FeMo cofactor (76 orbitals, 113 electrons).
  • Observed nearly ideal parallel scaling from 448 to 2800 CPU cores.

Conclusions:

  • The reformulated ab initio DMRG algorithm offers significant efficiency improvements on HPC platforms.
  • The sum of the sub-Hamiltonian approach provides a conceptually simpler and advantageous framework.
  • The implemented parallelism strategies and load balancing techniques lead to high parallel efficiency for large-scale quantum chemical problems.