Journal
JOURNAL OF COMPUTATIONAL CHEMISTRY
Volume 35, Issue 31, Pages 2272-2278Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/jcc.23752
Keywords
atoms in molecules; electron density; parallel computing; graphics processing units
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- CONACYT, Mexico [154784, 155070, 155698]
- Universidad de Antioquia, Colombia [10169, 1744]
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Using a grid-based method to search the critical points in electron density, we show how to accelerate such a method with graphics processing units (GPUs). When the GPU implementation is contrasted with that used on central processing units (CPUs), we found a large difference between the time elapsed by both implementations: the smallest time is observed when GPUs are used. We tested two GPUs, one related with video games and other used for high-performance computing (HPC). By the side of the CPUs, two processors were tested, one used in common personal computers and other used for HPC, both of last generation. Although our parallel algorithm scales quite well on CPUs, the same implementation on GPUs runs around 10x faster than 16 CPUs, with any of the tested GPUs and CPUs. We have found what one GPU dedicated for video games can be used without any problem for our application, delivering a remarkable performance, in fact; this GPU competes against one HPC GPU, in particular when single-precision is used. (c) 2014 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
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