Roadmap on electronic structure codes in the exascale era

Abstract

Electronic structure calculations have been instrumental in providing many important insights into a range of physical and chemical properties of various molecular and solid-state systems. Their importance to various fields, including materials science, chemical sciences, computational chemistry, and device physics, is underscored by the large fraction of available public supercomputing resources devoted to these calculations. As we enter the exascale era, exciting new opportunities to increase simulation numbers, sizes, and accuracies present themselves. In order to realize these promises, the community of electronic structure software developers will however first have to tackle a number of challenges pertaining to the efficient use of new architectures that will rely heavily on massive parallelism and hardware accelerators. This roadmap provides a broad overview of the state-of-the-art in electronic structure calculations and of the various new directions being pursued by the community. It covers 14 electronic structure codes, presenting their current status, their development priorities over the next five years, and their plans towards tackling the challenges and leveraging the opportunities presented by the advent of exascale computing.

Document Details

Document Type
Pub Defense Publication
Publication Date
Aug 07, 2023
Source ID
10.1088/1361-651x/acdf06

Entities

People

  • Alexander Buccheri
  • Andris Guļāns
  • Ayako Nakata
  • Christian Plessl
  • Claudia Draxl
  • Danny Perez
  • David R. Bowler
  • François Gygi
  • Giulia Galli
  • James R. Chelikowsky
  • John E. Pask
  • John M Herbert
  • Kai-Hsin Liou
  • Laura E Ratcliff
  • Lionel Truflandier
  • Luigi Genovese
  • M Dogan
  • Marc Torrent
  • Marco Govoni
  • Mariana Rossi
  • Matteo Giantomassi
  • Matthias Scheffler
  • Ole Schütt
  • Paolo Giannozzi
  • Phani Motamarri
  • Phanish Suryanarayana
  • Pietro Delugas
  • Qimen Xu
  • Robert R. Schade
  • Ryan M. Richard
  • Sambit Das
  • Sebastian Kokott
  • Stefano Baroni
  • Theresa L. Windus
  • Thomas D. Kühne
  • Tsuyoshi Miyazaki
  • Victor Yu
  • Vikram Gavini
  • Volker Blum
  • William Dawson
  • Xavier Gonze

Organizations

  • Air Force Office of Scientific Research
  • Army Research Office
  • Department of Science and Technology
  • German Research Foundation
  • National Science Foundation
  • Toyota Research Institute
  • United States Department of Energy

Tags

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Distributed Systems and Data Platform Development
  • Quantum Dot Semiconductor Device Photonics and Graphene Optoelectronic Materials and THz Physics.
  • Theoretical Analysis.

Technology Areas

  • Microelectronics