Accelerating Correlated Quantum Chemistry Calculations Using Graphical Processing Units

  • Authors:
  • Mark Watson;Roberto Olivares-Amaya;Richard G. Edgar;Alan Aspuru-Guzik

  • Affiliations:
  • Harvard University, Cambridge;Harvard University, Cambridge;Harvard University, Cambridge;Harvard University, Cambridge

  • Venue:
  • Computing in Science and Engineering
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

Graphical processing units are now being used with dramatic effect to accelerate quantum chemistry applications. The authors give a brief introduction to electronic structure methods and describe their efforts to accelerate a correlated quantum chemistry code. They propose and analyze two new tools for accelerating matrix-multiplications where single-precision accuracy is insuffcient.