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GauXC is a modern, modular C++ library for the evaluation of quantities related to the exchange-correlation (XC) and exact-exchange (K) energy (e.g. potential, etc) in the Gaussian basis set discretization of Kohn-Sham density function theory (KS-DFT). GauXC provides efficient, scalable distributed memory XC and K integrators for both CPU and accelerator-based (GPU) architectures. Currently, GPU support is provided through the CUDA and HIP frameworks to target NVIDIA and AMD GPUs, respectively. Evaluation of the XC functional CPU/accelerator architectures is provided by the ExchCXX library. Quadratures are generated by the IntegratorXX.
GauXC is a work in progress. Its development has been funded by the U.S. Department of Energy Exascale Computing Project (NWChemEx).
- Provide a stable, portable and high-performance implementation of numerical integrators optimized for the evaluation of XC and K related quantities in Gaussian basis set KS-DFT on CPU and accelerator based architectures.
- Develop a modern, modular, extensible C++ software infrastructure which allows for flexible and agile development in the field of KS-DFT.
- CMake (3.20+)
- BLAS (for CPU integrators)
- ExchCXX
- IntegratorXX
- Gau2Grid (pregenerated source packaged with GauXC)
- MPI (Optional)
- OpenMP (CPU parallelism, Optional)
- Cereal (Optional)
- HDF5 (Optional)
- Eigen3 (Testing Only)
- CUDA/cuBLAS (Required only if CUDA enabled)
- HIP/ROCm (Required only if HIP enabled)
- MAGMA (Optional if CUDA/HIP enabled)
Primary Developer and Maintainer: David Williams-Young - LBNL (dbwy at lbl dot gov)
GauXC has received major contributions from the following developers (in no particular order):
- Thom Popovici (LBNL) - Optimized sn-K kernels for CPU and GPU architectures
- Teri Lambros (UW) - Unrestricted (UKS) and Generalized (GKS) DFT
- Daniel Mejia-Rodriguez (PNNL) - Meta-GGA DFT
We have also receieved significant support from industry collaborators:
- David Clark (NVIDIA) - Optimization of critical kernels for NVIDIA architectures
- Damon McDougall (AMD) - Optimization of critical kernels for AMDGPU architectures
Please cite the following publications if GauXC was used in your publication:
% Distributed Memory Seminumerical Exact Exchange implementation
@article{williams2023distributed,
title = {Distributed memory, GPU accelerated Fock construction for hybrid, Gaussian basis density functional theory},
author = {Williams-Young, David B. and Asadchev, Andrey and Popovici, Doru Thom and Clark, David and Waldrop, Jonathan and
Windus, Theresa L. and Valeev, Edward F. and de Jong, Wibe A.},
journal = {The Journal of Chemical Physics},
volume = {158},
number = {23},
pages = {234104},
year = {2023},
doi = {10.1063/5.0151070},
url = {https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0151070}
}
% Performance Portability (HIP/SYCL implementations)
@article{williams2021achieving,
title={Achieving performance portability in Gaussian basis set density functional
theory on accelerator based architectures in NWChemEx},
author={Williams-Young, David B and Bagusetty, Abhishek and de Jong, Wibe A and
Doerfler, Douglas and van Dam, Hubertus JJ and V{\'a}zquez-Mayagoitia, {\'A}lvaro and
Windus, Theresa L and Yang, Chao},
journal={Parallel Computing},
volume={108},
pages={102829},
year={2021},
doi={10.1016/j.parco.2021.102829},
url={https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0167819121000776?via%3Dihub}
}
% CUDA and distributed memory implementation
@article{williams20on,
author={David B. Williams--Young and Wibe A. de Jong and Hubertus J.J. van Dam and
Chao Yang},
title={On the Efficient Evaluation of the Exchange Correlation Potential on
Graphics Processing Unit Clusters},
journal={Frontiers in Chemistry},
volume={8},
pages={581058},
year={2020},
doi={10.3389/fchem.2020.581058},
url={https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fchem.2020.581058/abstract},
preprint={https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.03143}
}
% Algorithm for XC potential assembly and shared-memory CPU implementation
@article{petrone18an,
author={Alessio Petrone and David B. Williams--Young and Shichao Sun and
Torin F. Stetina and Xiaosong Li},
title={An Efficient Implementation of Two-Component Relativistic Density
Functional Theory with Torque-Free Auxiliary Variables},
journal={The European Physical Journal B},
volume={91},
number={169},
pages={},
year={2018},
doi={10.1140/epjb/e2018-90170-1},
url={https://link.springer.com/article/10.1140/epjb/e2018-90170-1}
}
If GauXC was used for the evaluation of exchange-correlation related quantities in your publication, we request that you also cite Libxc which provides the underlying implementation of the exchange-correlation functionals used in GauXC via the ExchCXX library:
% Actual Implementations of the Density Functionals
@article{lehtola2018libxc,
author = {Lehtola, Susi and Steigemann, Conrad and Oliveira, Micael J. T. and Marques, Miguel A. L.},
journal = {SoftwareX},
title = {Recent developments in {LIBXC}---a comprehensive library of functionals for density functional theory},
year = {2018},
pages = {1--5},
volume = {7},
doi = {10.1016/j.softx.2017.11.002},
}
GauXC provides a CMake build system with automatic dependency management (through FetchContent). As such, a simple CMake invocation will often suffice for most purposes
cmake -S /path/to/gauxc -B /path/to/build [GauXC configure options]
cmake --build /path/to/build
GauXC is linkable both as an installed library as well as a CMake subproject via FetchContent
# GauXC Discovery
find_package( gauxc REQUIRED )
target_link_libraries( my_target PUBLIC gauxc::gauxc )
# GauXC as CMake Subproject
include(FetchContent)
# Set GauXC CMake options (see below)
# Pull master branch of GauXC
FetchContent_Declare( gauxc
GIT_REPOSITORY https://github/com/wavefunction91/GauXC.git
GIT_TAG master
)
FetchContent_MakeAvailable( gauxc )
# Link to target
target_link_libraries( my_target PUBLIC gauxc::gauxc )
| Variable Name | Description | Default |
|---|---|---|
GAUXC_ENABLE_TESTS |
Enable Testing Framework (Catch2) | ON |
GAUXC_ENABLE_HOST |
Enable HOST integrators | ON |
GAUXC_ENABLE_CUDA |
Enable CUDA integrators | OFF |
GAUXC_ENABLE_HIP |
Enable HIP integrators | OFF |
GAUXC_ENABLE_MAGMA |
Enable MAGMA for batched BLAS (No effect if no GPU) | ON |
GAUXC_ENABLE_CUTLASS |
Enable CUTLASS for batched BLAS (No effect if no CUDA) | OFF |
GAUXC_ENABLE_NCCL |
Enable NCCL bindings for topology aware GPU reductions | OFF |
GAUXC_ENABLE_MPI |
Enable MPI Bindings | ON |
GAUXC_ENABLE_OPENMP |
Enable OpenMP Bindings | ON |
CMAKE_CUDA_ARCHITECTURES |
CUDA architechtures (e.g. 70 for Volta, 80 for Ampere) | -- |
BLAS_LIBRARIES |
Full BLAS linker. | -- |
MAGMA_ROOT_DIR |
Install prefix for MAGMA. | -- |
Coming Soon.... See test/standalone_driver.cxx for an example end-to-end invocation of GauXC for various integrands.
GauXC is made freely available under the terms of a modified 3-Clause BSD license. See LICENSE.txt for details.
The development of GauXC is supported by the Exascale Computing Project (17-SC-20-SC), a collaborative effort of the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science and the National Nuclear Security Administration.