Opendda: a Novel High-Performance Computational Framework for the Discrete Dipole Approximation

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2009-08-06

arxiv.org/abs/0908.0863v1

International Journal of High Performance Computing Applications, Feb 2009; vol. 23: pp. 42 - 61

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics

29 pages, 5 figures

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This work presents a highly optimized computational framework for the Discrete Dipole Approximation, a numerical method for calculating the optical properties associated with a target of arbitrary geometry that is widely used in atmospheric, astrophysical and industrial simulations. Core optimizations include the bit-fielding of integer data and iterative methods that complement a new Discrete Fourier Transform (DFT) kernel, which efficiently calculates the matrix vector products required by these iterative solution schemes. The new kernel performs the requisite 3-D DFTs as ensembles of 1-D transforms, and by doing so, is able to reduce the number of constituent 1-D transforms by 60% and the memory by over 80%. The optimizations also facilitate the use of parallel techniques to further enhance the performance. Complete OpenMP-based shared-memory and MPI-based distributed-memory implementations have been created to take full advantage of the various architectures. Several benchmarks of the new framework indicate extremely favorable performance and scalability. OpenDDA is available following the usual open source regulations from http://www.opendda.org

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