I have made a modification to Abinit Cuda code to enable Single Precision calculations by invoking:
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with_gpu_flavor=cuda-singlefrom the Config File. However, I dont have all hardware in the world so If you could manage to make this code better, lets do it!
I am attaching a file that contains the patch for Abinit 8.0.8b, change the extension ".in" into ".patch" then patch it from the source directory.
Update:
I found some bugs and fixed it, It compiles without problem now, I can also run the code It self.
And the sp code is faster by about 40% to 5x in small tests! Yey! More than that energy results differ only very little OMG!
Results:
Test 1
Ref. Time: 8.4s
Ref. Energy: 6.6540730581441
SP Time: 5.1s
SP Energy: 6.6540730581443
Test 4
Ref. Time: 14
SP Time: 2.8
I dont know yet how good it will scale in Big systems, but the theoretical speed up would suppose to be 10x in larger computational cost, I have not tested yet. Hope sometime you do
CAVEAT: DP has a precision of up to ~15 decimal place while SP is up to ~7 decimal places, so expect the expected, but 5x (or maybe 10x?) speed up is really hard to miss
