Sustainable domain-specific software generation tools for extremely parallel particle-based simulations

Lead Research Organisation: University of Southampton
Department Name: Sch of Chemistry

Abstract

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Description New approaches to optimise operations and code for linear-scaling electronic structure calculations.
Exploitation Route Development of efficient electronic structure codes for large scale density functional theory calculations
Sectors Chemicals,Digital/Communication/Information Technologies (including Software),Pharmaceuticals and Medical Biotechnology

 
Description One of the outcomes of this work was the development of a significantly more efficient parallelisation scheme for the ONETEP code, going from MPI-only to hybrid MPI+OpenMP which increases the scale of the calculations and reduces the all-important time to solution. This strengthened the dominance of the code as the preferred tool for large-scale electronic structure simulations both in industry (commercial sales up to $6-million todate) and in academia.
First Year Of Impact 2014
Sector Agriculture, Food and Drink,Chemicals,Digital/Communication/Information Technologies (including Software),Energy,Environment,Pharmaceuticals and Medical Biotechnology,Other
Impact Types Economic