TY  - JOUR
AU  - Zhang, Xiao
AU  - Achilles, Sebastian
AU  - Winkelmann, Jan
AU  - Haas, Roland
AU  - Schleife, André
AU  - Di Napoli, Edoardo
TI  - Solving the Bethe-Salpeter equation on massively parallel architectures
JO  - Computer physics communications
VL  - 267
SN  - 0010-4655
CY  - Amsterdam
PB  - North Holland Publ. Co.
M1  - FZJ-2020-02308
SP  - 108081
PY  - 2021
AB  - The last ten years have witnessed fast spreading of massively parallel computing clusters, from leading supercomputing facilities down to the average university computing center. Many companies in the private sector have undergone a similar evolution. In this scenario, the seamless integration of software and middleware libraries is a key ingredient to ensure portability of scientific codes and guarantees them an extended lifetime. In this work, we describe the integration of the ChASE library, a modern parallel eigensolver, into an existing legacy code for the first-principles computation of optical properties of materials via solution of the Bethe-Salpeter equation for the optical polarization function. Our numerical tests show that, as a result of integrating ChASE and parallelizing the reading routine, the code experiences a remarkable speedup and greatly improved scaling behavior on both multi- and many-core architectures. We demonstrate that such a modernized BSE code will, by fully exploiting parallel computing architectures and file systems, enable domain scientists to accurately study complex material systems that were not accessible before.
LB  - PUB:(DE-HGF)16
UR  - <Go to ISI:>//WOS:000681244600014
DO  - DOI:10.1016/j.cpc.2021.108081
UR  - https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/877586
ER  -