کد مقاله | کد نشریه | سال انتشار | مقاله انگلیسی | نسخه تمام متن |
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1677433 | 1518337 | 2014 | 6 صفحه PDF | دانلود رایگان |
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• Bloch-wave and stacked-Bloch-wave calculations can be accelerated with GPUs.
• Direct approximation of the matrix exponential can be faster than diagonalization.
• GPU-based direct approximation can be ≈70× faster than CPU diagonalization.
• Larger matrices benefit more from this approach than smaller ones.
• Stacked-Bloch-wave scattering results are functionally identical to diagonalization.
In this paper, we discuss the advantages for Bloch-wave simulations performed using graphics processing units (GPUs), based on approximating the matrix exponential directly instead of performing a matrix diagonalization. Our direct matrix-exponential algorithm yields a functionally identical electron scattering matrix to that generated with matrix diagonalization. Using the matrix-exponential scaling-and-squaring method with a Padé approximation, direct GPU-based matrix-exponential double-precision calculations are up to 20× faster than CPU-based calculations and up to approximately 70× faster than matrix diagonalization. We compare precision and runtime of scaling and squaring methods with either the Padé approximation or a Taylor expansion. We also discuss the stacked-Bloch-wave method, and show that our stacked-Bloch-wave implementation yields the same electron scattering matrix as traditional Bloch-wave matrix diagonalization.
Journal: Ultramicroscopy - Volume 141, June 2014, Pages 32–37