Automatic Transformation of MPI Programs to Asynchronous, Graph-Driven Form

Baden, Scott B¹  Weare, John H¹  Bylaska, Eric J² 

[1] University of California, San Diego;Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

关键词: Program transformation;    MPI;    Hiding Communication;    ab-initio molecular dynamics;    parallel in time;    hybrid DFT;   

DOI  :  10.2172/1076871
RP-ID  :  DOE/SC0003443-1
PID  :  OSTI ID: 1076871

学科分类：数学（综合）

美国|英语

来源: SciTech Connect

【 摘 要 】

The goals of this project are to develop new, scalable, high-fidelity algorithms for atomic-level simulations and program transformations that automatically restructure existing applications, enabling them to scale forward to Petascale systems and beyond. The techniques enable legacy MPI application code to exploit greater parallelism though increased latency hiding and improved workload assignment. The techniques were successfully demonstrated on high-end scalable systems located at DOE laboratories. Besides the automatic MPI program transformations efforts, the project also developed several new scalable algorithms for ab-initio molecular dynamics, including new massively parallel algorithms for hybrid DFT and new parallel in time algorithms for molecular dynamics and ab-initio molecular dynamics. These algorithms were shown to scale to very large number of cores, and they were designed to work in the latency hiding framework developed in this project. The effectiveness of the developments was enhanced by the direct application to real grand challenge simulation problems covering a wide range of technologically important applications, time scales and accuracies. These included the simulation of the electronic structure of mineral/fluid interfaces, the very accurate simulation of chemical reactions in microsolvated environments, and the simulation of chemical behavior in very large enzyme reactions.