Calum Snowdon

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2ranked-venue papers
0as first author
2since 2021 · last 2024
—ORCID · none

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Systems, architecture and hardware · 2 · 2 since 2021

Expertise — from the expertise taxonomy: the topics of the expert's papers under the CCF categories. A weight counts papers with recency: 1 for a paper about the topic, 0.3 when the topic is its context, halved every five years.

Computer architecture, parallel and distributed computing, and storage systems
2 papers
High-performance computing · 73% GPUs and heterogeneous computing · 22% Parallel and multicore computing · 5%
Interdisciplinary, comprehensive, and emerging computing
1 paper
Computational science and engineering · 100%

Topics — the 7 heaviest of 8, each with the papers that count most for it

TopicWeightPapersLastEvidence papers
High-performance computing
scientific computing systems
1.322024
Breaking the Million-Electron and 1 EFLOP/s Barriers: Biomolecular-Scale Ab Initio Molecular Dynamics Using MP2 Potentials · SC 2024
Scaling Correlated Fragment Molecular Orbital Calculations on Summit · SC 2022
Computational science and engineering › computational chemistry
ab initio molecular dynamics
0.812024
Breaking the Million-Electron and 1 EFLOP/s Barriers: Biomolecular-Scale Ab Initio Molecular Dynamics Using MP2 Potentials · SC 2024
Computational science and engineering › computational chemistry › molecular simulation
molecular dynamics
0.812024
Breaking the Million-Electron and 1 EFLOP/s Barriers: Biomolecular-Scale Ab Initio Molecular Dynamics Using MP2 Potentials · SC 2024
High-performance computing › scientific computing systems
biomolecular simulation
0.812024
Breaking the Million-Electron and 1 EFLOP/s Barriers: Biomolecular-Scale Ab Initio Molecular Dynamics Using MP2 Potentials · SC 2024
GPUs and heterogeneous computing › multi-GPU computing
distributed GPU computing
0.612022
Scaling Correlated Fragment Molecular Orbital Calculations on Summit · SC 2022
High-performance computing › scientific computing systems
quantum chemistry simulation
0.612022
Scaling Correlated Fragment Molecular Orbital Calculations on Summit · SC 2022
GPUs and heterogeneous computing
GPU-accelerated scientific computing
0.212024
Breaking the Million-Electron and 1 EFLOP/s Barriers: Biomolecular-Scale Ab Initio Molecular Dynamics Using MP2 Potentials · SC 2024

Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics

resolution-of-identity approximation · 1.5molecular fragmentation · 1.5asynchronous time stepping · 1.5MP2 perturbation theory · 1.5distributed many-GPU algorithm · 0.6RI-MP2 · 0.6
YearPublicationVenuePosition
2024 Breaking the Million-Electron and 1 EFLOP/s Barriers: Biomolecular-Scale Ab Initio Molecular Dynamics Using MP2 Potentials
abstract
The accurate simulation of complex biochemical phenomena has historically been hampered by the computational requirements of high-fidelity molecular-modeling techniques. Quantum mechanical methods, such as ab initio wave-function (WF) theory, deliver the desired accuracy, but have impractical scaling for modeling biosystems with thousands of atoms. Combining molecular fragmentation with MP2 perturbation theory, this study presents an innovative approach that enables biomolecular-scale ab initio molecular dynamics (AIMD) simulations at WF theory level. Leveraging the resolution-of-the-identity approximation for Hartree-Fock and MP2 gradients, our approach eliminates computationally intensive four-center integrals and their gradients, while achieving near-peak performance on modern GPU architectures. The introduction of asynchronous time steps minimizes time step latency, overlapping computational phases and effectively mitigating load imbalances. Utilizing up to $\mathbf{9, 4 0 0}$ nodes of Frontier and achieving $\mathbf{5 9 \%}$ (1006.7 PFLOP/s) of its double-precision floating-point peak, our method enables us to break the million-electron and $1 \mathrm{EFLOP} / \mathrm{s}$ barriers for AIMD simulations with quantum accuracy.
Ryan Stocks, Jorge L. Galvez Vallejo, Fiona C. Y. Yu, Calum Snowdon, Elise Palethorpe, Jakub Kurzak, Dmytro Bykov, Giuseppe M. J. Barca
SC4
2022 Scaling Correlated Fragment Molecular Orbital Calculations on Summit
abstract
Correlated electronic structure calculations enable an accurate prediction of the physicochemical properties of complex molecular systems; however, the scale of these calculations is limited by their extremely high computational cost. The Fragment Molecular Orbital (FMO) method is arguably one of the most effective ways to lower this computational cost while retaining predictive accuracy. In this paper, a novel distributed many-GPU algorithm and implementation of the FMO method are presented. When applied in tandem with the Hartree-Fock and RI-MP2 methods, the new implementation enables correlated calculations on 623,016 electrons and 146,592 atoms in less than 45 minutes using 99.8% of the Summit supercomputer (27,600 GPUs). The implementation demonstrates remarkable speedups with respect to other current GPU and CPU codes, and excellent strong scalability on Summit achieving 94.6 % parallel efficiency on 4600 nodes. This work makes feasible correlated quantum chemistry calculations on significantly larger molecular systems than before and with higher accuracy.
Giuseppe M. J. Barca, Calum Snowdon, Jorge L. Galvez Vallejo, Fazeleh S. Kazemian, Alistair P. Rendell, Mark S. Gordon
SC2