Enabling Multireference Calculations on Multimetallic Systems with Graphic Processing Units
- 17 July 2025
- journal article
- Published by American Chemical Society (ACS) in Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation
- Vol. 21 (15) , 7378-7393
Abstract
Modeling multimetallic systems efficiently enables faster prediction of desirable chemical properties and the design of new materials. This work describes an initial implementation for performing multireference wave function method localized active-space self-consistent field (LASSCF) calculations through the use of multiple graphics processing units (GPUs) to accelerate time-to-solution. Density fitting is leveraged to reduce memory requirements, and we demonstrate the ability to fully utilize multi-GPU compute nodes. Performance improvements of 5-10x in total application runtime were observed in LASSCF calculations for multimetallic catalyst systems up to 1200 AOs and an active space of (22e,40o) using up to four NVIDIA A100 GPUs. Written with performance portability in mind, a comparable performance is also observed in early runs on the Aurora exascale system using Intel Max Series GPUs.Keywords
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- Basic Energy Sciences (DE-SC0023382)
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