Performance and scaling improvements for CASTEP
- đ¤ Speaker: Research Software Engineering, University of Cambridge
- đ Date & Time: Wednesday 13 February 2019, 13:00 - 14:00
- đ Venue: JJ Thomson Seminar Room, Maxwell Centre, Cavendish Laboratory
Abstract
Castep is one of the leading simulation codes for ab-initio calculation of material properties. In this talk, I discuss several projects that have aimed to improve the performance of CASTEP across several architectures. In particular I will talk about improving the scaling capability of CASTEP on traditional HPC hardware, the development of a prototype GPU port using OpenACC, and improving vectorisability of the code for modern and upcoming CPU architectures. We aim to give both a general overview of the technologies and techniques used and the specific implementation in CASTEP .
Series This talk is part of the RSE Seminars series.
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Wednesday 13 February 2019, 13:00-14:00