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  • Artificial Intelligence Hardware

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  • Artificial intelligence (AI) accelerators offer potential for scientific computation speedups.
  • Quantum chemistry simulations face challenges with AI hardware due to accuracy demands and data patterns.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To develop an adaptive precision algorithm for accelerating density fitting (DF) in quantum chemistry on AI accelerators.
  • To utilize 8-bit integer (INT8) arithmetics for enhanced computational efficiency.

Main Methods:

  • Implementation of an adaptive precision algorithm within the GPU-accelerated PySCF package.
  • Testing the algorithm on over 20 molecular systems across various NVIDIA GPUs.
  • Utilizing 8-bit integer (INT8) arithmetic for tensor computations.

Main Results:

  • Achieved speedups of up to 204% on an RTX 4090 and 364% on an RTX 6000 Ada workstation GPU compared to standard FP64 calculations.
  • Maintained converged energy accuracy, demonstrating no compromise in simulation reliability.
  • Demonstrated practical application of AI hardware for quantum chemistry.

Conclusions:

  • The proposed adaptive precision algorithm effectively accelerates density fitting in quantum chemistry on AI accelerators.
  • INT8 arithmetics can be reliably used for high-accuracy quantum chemistry simulations.
  • AI hardware presents a viable pathway for efficient and accurate quantum chemistry simulations.