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The Super Instruction Architecture (SIA) is a parallel programming environment designed for problems in computational chemistry involving complicated expressions defined in terms of tensors. Tensors are represented by multidimensional arrays which are typically very large. The SIA consists of a domain specific programming language, Super Instruction Assembly Language (SIAL), and its runtime system, Super Instruction Processor. An important feature of SIAL is that algorithms are expressed in terms of blocks (or tiles) of multidimensional arrays rather than individual floating point numbers. In this paper, we describe how the SIA was enhanced to exploit GPUs, obtaining speedups ranging from two to nearly four for computational chemistry calculations, thus saving hours of elapsed time on large-scale computations. The results provide evidence that the “programming-with-blocks” approach embodied in the SIA will remain successful in modern, heterogeneous computing environments.
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Tensor contraction operations occur frequently in the domain and are defined as follows: Let \(\alpha , \beta , \gamma \) be mutually disjoint, possibly empty lists of indices of multidimensional arrays representing the tensors. Then the contraction of \(A[\alpha ,\beta ]\) with \(B[\beta ,\gamma ]\) yields \(C[\alpha ,\gamma ] = \sum _{\beta } A[\alpha ,\beta ] * B[\beta ,\gamma ]\). Typically, contractions are implemented by (possibly) permuting one of the arrays and then performing a DGEMM.
We refer to “the” segment size for convenience. It is not required that all segments within a rank be the same size. The way an index is segmented is part of its type and is fixed during program initialization. There are several segment index types corresponding to domain specific concepts. For example, aoindex and moindex represent atomic orbital and molecular orbital. This allows the type system to perform useful checks on the consistent use of index variables.
The syntax has been slightly simplified.
As can be seen from the SIAL code fragment in Fig. 2, data transfers between nodes do not overlap with GPU instructions.
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Shawn McDowell provided the CUDA implementation of the contraction operator. This work was supported by the National Science Foundation Grant OCI-0725070 and the Office of Science of the U.S. Department of Energy under grant DE-SC0002565. The development of the SIA and ACES III has been also been supported by the US Department of Defense’s High Performance Computing Modernization Program (HPCMP) under the two programs, Common High Performance Computing Software Initiative (CHSSI), Project CBD-03, and User Productivity Enhancement and Technology Transfer (PET). We also thank the University of Florida High Performance Computing Center for use of its facilities.
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Jindal, N., Lotrich, V., Deumens, E. et al. Exploiting GPUs with the Super Instruction Architecture. Int J Parallel Prog 44, 309–324 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10766-014-0319-4
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