Benefits from using mixed precision computations in the ELPA-AEO and ESSEX-II eigensolver projects

Journal Article (2019)
Author(s)

Andreas Alvermann

Achim Basermann

Hans-Joachim Bungartz

Christian Carbogno

Dominik Ernst

Holger Fehske

Yasunori Futamura

Martin Galgon

Georg Hager

Sarah Huber

Thomas Huckle

Akihiro Ida

Akira Imakura

Masatoshi Kawai

Simone Koecher

Moritz Kreutzer

Pavel Kus

Bruno Lang

Hermann Lederer

Valeriy Manin

Andreas Marek

Kengo Nakajima

Lydia Nemec

Karsten Reuter

Michael Rippl

Melven Roehrig-Zoellner

Tetsuya Sakurai

Matthias Scheffler

Christoph Scheurer

Faisal Shahzad

Danilo Simoes Brambila

Jonas Thies (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt (DLR))

Gerhard Wellein

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DOI related publication
https://doi.org/10.1007/s13160-019-00360-8
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Publication Year
2019
Language
English
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Issue number
2
Volume number
36
Pages (from-to)
699-717

Abstract

We first briefly report on the status and recent achievements of the ELPA-AEO (Eigen value Solvers for Petaflop Applications—Algorithmic Extensions and Optimizations) and ESSEX II (Equipping Sparse Solvers for Exascale) projects. In both collaboratory efforts, scientists from the application areas, mathematicians, and computer scientists work together to develop and make available efficient highly parallel methods for the solution of eigenvalue problems. Then we focus on a topic addressed in both projects, the use of mixed precision computations to enhance efficiency. We give a more detailed description of our approaches for benefiting from either lower or higher precision in three selected contexts and of the results thus obtained.

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