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StochasticGW-GPU: Rapid Quasi-Particle Energies for Molecules beyond 10,000 Atoms
Phillip S Thomas1, Minh Nguyen2, Dimitri Bazile3
1National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC), Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, United States.
Abstract:
StochasticGW is a code for computing accurate quasi-particle (QP) energies of molecules and material systems in the GW approximation. StochasticGW utilizes the stochastic Resolution of the Identity (sROI) technique to enable a massively parallel implementation with computational costs that scale semilinearly with system size, allowing the method to access systems with tens of thousands of electrons. We introduce a new implementation, StochasticGW-GPU, for which the main bottleneck steps have been ported to GPUs and give substantial performance improvements over previous versions of the code. We showcase the new code by computing band gaps of hydrogenated silicon clusters (SixHy) containing up to 10,001 atoms and 35,144 electrons, and we obtain individual QP energies with a statistical precision of better than ±0.03 eV with times-to-solution of less than 1 h.
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