Abstract
We developed a special purpose parallel computer: Embedded High Performance Computer (EHPC) for the first principle DVXα calculations, which realizes super high performance and cost-down for large scale first principle material simulation.
An EHPC unit consists of one host-board (Pentium III 400MHz) and 7 acceleration-boards. Four general purpose processors (SH4 200MHz) are equipped on a board. The EHPC unit has 28 processors connected to each other by Compact PCI-bus.
The step of matrix elements generation where more than 90% computation time is required was efficiently parallelized on the system. In the case of Si78B6H53 cluster, the special purpose computer with four EHPC units is almost 100 times faster than a lone Pentium III processor. Super-linear speed up has been observed at the matrix elements generation step.
