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Thom Popovici, F. Russell, K. Wilkinson, C-K. Skylaris, P. H. J. Kelly and Franz Franchetti (Proc. IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS), 2015)
Generating Optimized Fourier Interpolation Routines for Density Functional Theory Using SPIRAL
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Upsampling of a multi-dimensional data-set is an operation with wide application in image processing and quantum mechanical calculations using density functional theory. For small upsampling factors as seen in the quantum chemistry code ONETEP, a time-shift based implementation that shifts samples by a fraction of the original grid spacing to fill in the intermediate values using a frequency domain Fourier property can be a good choice. Readily available highly optimized multidimensional FFT implementations are leveraged at the expense of extra passes through the entire working set. In this paper we present an optimized variant of the time-shift based upsampling. Since ONETEP handles threading, we address the memory hierarchy and SIMD vectorization, and focus on problem dimensions relevant for ONETEP. We present a formalization of this operation within the SPIRAL framework and demonstrate auto-generated and autotuned interpolation libraries. We compare the performance of our generated code against the previous best implementations using highly optimized FFT libraries (FFTW and MKL). We demonstrate speed-ups in isolation averaging 3x and within ONETEP of up to 15%.

Keywords:
SPIRAL program generation system for transforms