Implementation and benchmarking of new FFT libraries in quantum ESPRESSO

Abstract

Quantum ESPRESSO (QE) software package allows electronic-structure calculations and materials modeling at the nanoscale, based on density-functional theory, plane waves, and pseudopotentials. It extensively uses Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) during all computations. In addition to the built-in FFT libraries, QE enables integration of newly developed FFT algorithms. Since Fastest Fourier Transform of the East (FFTE) library has shown performance comparable with the widely used and vendor-supplied libraries, the same behavior is foreseen in QE. In this paper we present FFTE-enabled and thread-enabled FFTW3 extensions of QE, together with benchmarking and performance results.