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Optimization and parallelization of B-spline based orbital evaluations in QMC on multi/many-core shared memory processors

Amrita Mathuriya, Ye Luo, Anouar Benali, Luke Shulenburger, Jeongnim Kim
Intel Corporation
arXiv:1611.02665 [cs.DC], (8 Nov 2016)

@article{mathuriya2016optimization,

   title={Optimization and parallelization of B-spline based orbital evaluations in QMC on multi/many-core shared memory processors},

   author={Mathuriya, Amrita and Luo, Ye and Benali, Anouar and Shulenburger, Luke and Kim, Jeongnim},

   year={2016},

   month={nov},

   archivePrefix={"arXiv"},

   primaryClass={cs.DC}

}

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B-spline based orbital representations are widely used in Quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) simulations of solids, historically taking as much as 50% of the total run time. Random accesses to a large four-dimensional array make it challenging to efficiently utilize caches and wide vector units of modern CPUs. We present node-level optimizations of B-spline evaluations on multi/many-core shared memory processors. To increase SIMD efficiency and bandwidth utilization, we first apply data layout transformation from array-of-structures to structure-of-arrays (SoA). Then by blocking SoA objects, we optimize cache reuse and get sustained throughput for a range of problem sizes. We implement efficient nested threading in B-spline orbital evaluation kernels, paving the way towards enabling strong scaling of QMC simulations. These optimizations are portable on four distinct cache-coherent architectures and result in up to 5.6x performance enhancements on Intel Xeon Phi processor 7250P (KNL), 5.7x on Intel Xeon Phi coprocessor 7120P, 10x on an Intel Xeon processor E5v4 CPU and 9.5x on BlueGene/Q processor. Our nested threading implementation shows nearly ideal parallel efficiency on KNL up to 16 threads. We employ roofline performance analysis to model the impacts of our optimizations. This work combined with our current efforts of optimizing other QMC kernels, result in greater than 4.5x speedup of miniQMC on KNL.
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