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<H1>PeIGS - Parallel Eigensolver</H1>
<H2>George I. Fann and Richard J. Littlefield</H2>
<P> Our parallel eigensolver package is called PeIGS, and solves the
standard and generalized, real, symmetric eigenproblems. It is based
on bisection for eigenvalues and repeated inverse iteration and
reorthogonalization for eigenvectors. The parallel performance is
competitive with alternative methods for typical "chemical" problem sizes, and is
illustrated with three applications from quantum chemistry
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<LI> SCF-Hartree-Fock (Fock matrix for 389 atom zeolite fragment, 2053 functions)
<LI> density functional theory (charge-fitting matrix for <I>(SiOSi)6</I>, 1687)
<LI> resolution-of-the-identity Moller-Plesset theory (biphenyl
charge-fitting matrix, 966)
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The distinguishing feature of the repeated inverse iteration and
orthonormalization method used by PeIGS is that orthogonalization is
performed across multiple processors as dictated by the spectrum.
The correct, orthonormal result is <I>always</I> generated.
<P>For a spectrum that is well spaced, there is essentially no
orthogonalization time. Most of the time is consumed in the
Householder reduction to tridiagonal form. For large numerically
degenerate clusters, almost all of the time is consumed in the
Householder reduction and in orthonormalization.
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<H2>Acknowledgments</H2>
<P>This work was performed under the auspices of the High Performance
Computing and Communications Program of the Office of Scientific
Computing, U.S. Department of Energy under contract DE-AC6-76RLO 1830
with Battelle Memorial Institute which operates the Pacific Northwest
National Laboratory, a multiprogram national laboratory. This work
has made extensive use of software developed by the Molecular Science
Software Group of the Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory
project managed by the Office Health and Energy Research.
<P>This research was performed in part using the Caltech Concurrent
Supercomputing Facilities (CCSF) operated by Caltech on behalf of the
Concurrent Supercomputing Consortium. Access to this facility was
provided by Pacific Northwest National Laboratory.
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<ADDRESS>Prepared by RJ Harrison: Email: nwchem-support@emsl.pnl.gov.</ADDRESS>
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