Dynamic Precision Approach for Accelerating Large-Scale Eigenvalue Solvers in Electronic Structure Calculations on Graphics Processing Units.
J Chem Theory Comput
; 19(5): 1457-1465, 2023 Mar 14.
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Single precision (SP) arithmetic can be greatly accelerated as compared to double precision (DP) arithmetic on graphics processing units (GPUs). However, the use of SP in the whole process of electronic structure calculations is inappropriate for the required accuracy. We propose a 3-fold dynamic precision approach for accelerated calculations but still with the accuracy of DP. Here, SP, DP, and mixed precision are dynamically switched during an iterative diagonalization process. We applied this approach to the locally optimal block preconditioned conjugate gradient method to accelerate a large-scale eigenvalue solver for the Kohn-Sham equation. We determined a proper threshold for switching each precision scheme by examining the convergence pattern on the eigenvalue solver only with the kinetic energy operator of the Kohn-Sham Hamiltonian. As a result, we achieved up to 8.53× and 6.60× speedups for band structure and self-consistent field calculations, respectively, for test systems under various boundary conditions on NVIDIA GPUs.
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