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SHRED: An open-source DFT code for exascale and matter in extreme conditions

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Abstract

Real space and planewave based Kohn-Sham Density Functional Theory codes are critical tools for studying condensed matter, chemical, material, and plasma physics. However, a large basis and the need to orthogonalize large numbers of orbitals/bands leads to computational complexity that scales cubically in both system size and temperatures, in the electron-volt regime. Additionally, significant communication bottlenecks limit parallel scaling across many nodes and/or GPU’s. In this talk, we present the SHRED (Stochastic and Hybrid Representation for Electronic structure by Density functional theory) code which utilizes alternative linear-scaling stochastic, mixed stochastic-deterministic, and orbital-free DFT and TD-DFT algorithms to circumvent orbital orthogonalization and achieve significant acceleration of calculations in a range of simulations. Newly implemented PAW pseudopotentials (based on Abinit’s LibPAW library), progress in GPU acceleration and new correlated sampling techniques, and applications to warm dense matter will be highlighted.

Presenters

  • Alexander J White

    Los Alamos Natl Lab

Authors

  • Alexander J White

    Los Alamos Natl Lab