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Foil 39 Computational Chemistry at NPAC -- NWChem

From Overview of HPCC Applications at NPAC CRPC Annual Meeting -- May 14-17 1996. by Geoffrey Fox


1 http://www.emsl.pnl.gov:2080/docs/nwchem/nwchem.html
2 New (begun 1993) computational chemistry package designed specifically for large-scale calculations on MPPs.
3 NPAC collaborating with Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) , which leads the development.
4 Includes many comp. chem. methods: molecular dynamics, ab initio self-consistent field (SCF) and correlated methods.
5 Implemented in Fortran77 & C using a distributed-data approach. All data larger than O(N) is distributed.
6 Based on Global Array Toolkit -- provides programmer with one-sided shared-memory programming model regardless of underlying platform
  • Portable: Implementations for distributed memory, shared memory, distributed clusters of SMP nodes, NOWs, I-WAY
  • Exposes NUMA nature common to all platforms to programmer -- efficient portable algorithms consider or use NUMA
  • Designed for straightforward migration to HPF

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