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DTSTART:20111116T011500Z
DTEND:20111116T030000Z
LOCATION:WSCC North Galleria 2nd/3rd Floors
DESCRIPTION;ENCODING=QUOTED-PRINTABLE:ABSTRACT: The MGPT potential has been implemented as a package for the general molecular dynamics code LAMMPS. We use an improved force calculation scheme which reduces the communication layer thickness by a factor of two, and makes the code more load balanced. This results in unprecedented strong scaling, and speedup continuing beyond 1/8 atom/core. In the strong scaling limit, our code is 10 times faster than the Gordon-Bell Prize winning BlueGene/L implementation of MGPT (2).=0A=0AIn addition, we have optimized the small matrix linear algebra, which accounts for most of the computaitonal work in MGPT. We generate kernels with different blocking parameters, and SIMD intrinsics for vectorization on x86 and BlueGene cpus, and select the fastest routines. On recent Intel cpus, the kernels useful flops/s reach 77% to theoretical peak performance.=0A=0AThe poster will illustrate our force calculation scheme, our approach to linear algebra optimization and show scaling and performance results.
SUMMARY:An highly efficient MGPT implementation for LAMMPS, with strong scaling
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