OpenCL
There and Back Again
Matthias Noack*; Florian Wende*; Klaus-Dieter Oertel† * Zuse Institute Berlin, Germany† Intel Corporation, Germany
Abstract
The chapter presents a case study on optimizing the Hexciton kernel of the GPU-HEOM code for parallelism. The HEOM method bridges biology and quantum physics to simulate molecular light-harvesting complexes. The Hexciton kernel computes a commutator term for a large set of small, complex matrices, which is relevant in other domains too. Starting with a naive reference implementation, the chapter develops a fully optimized OpenCL kernel by analyzing different techniques. The chapter compares automatic and manual vectorization techniques to optimize the memory layout for contiguous ...
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