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Meet some of our Staff Members
Shelley Smith
Helping people expand their families is more than a job to me, it is my calling. My work is infused with personal connections, from the loss of my son, which motivated me to begin my program, to my six years of infertility treatments, to my wonderful resolution with the birth of my twins through ovum donation. There is not a moment in my many years of facilitating when I haven't felt privileged to be able to help people at such a defining moment in their lives. Choosing a donor is one of the most important and deeply emotional experiences one can face. My superior staff and I understand the nuances, stresses, and blessings people experience at this pivotal time. As I look back at the faces of the lovely couples we have helped, the darling babies who have been born, and finally the tremendous women who have given such gifts, I know that I have spent my career in the company of angels and witnessed miracles of science and the human heart.
I have a master's degree in psychology and am licensed as a Marriage Family Therapist in California since 1993. In my former careers I was a model and an actress.
Christi Frantom
Cycle Coordinator
I grew up in Louisiana and studied Radio/TV/and Film at Northeast LA University. I then went on to graduate from the American Musical and Dramatic Academy in NYC. I have always loved reading (especially crime novels), writing and adventure sports: hiking, repelling, white water rafting, kickboxing, etc. I have the most wonderful dog in the world, Max, who recently underwent surgery to remove a cancerous tumor from his back leg. He's less one appendage now, but as healthy, happy and spoiled (even more so playing the "handicapped dog" card) as he has ever been! This career path has allowed me to meet the most amazing people. Our surrogates and their husbands are some of the most selfless and incredible people I've ever had the pleasure of knowing. Sometimes this job can be heartbreaking, but when a couple holds their baby for the first time it more than makes up for the setbacks. I love being a part of a process that realizes a dream for people who had almost given up hope.
Vanessa Abreu
Match Coordinator
I am originally from Northern California, and I moved to Los Angeles shortly after graduating college with a Degree in Film & Television. In early 2007, I was given the wonderful opportunity to begin working with Shelley Smith. Being a part of such an amazing staff and seeing couples achieve their dreams as parents is very satisfying. Last year I was able to successfully donate stem cells for my ailing brother. Having been able to help him, and knowing I have the chance to work in an environment where I can help others is incredible. It is wonderful to witness the complete journey people experience through our Surrogacy Program, and work with the most selfless donors and recipients in The Egg Donor Program. There is something truly amazing when for us as the journey ends with the birth of a beautiful child, and we know the couple is just beginning their experience.
Sidney Wilson
Egg Donation Coordinator
I am originally from Northern California, and I moved to Los Angeles shortly after I was born in the pacific North West and grew up in a large family that loved the outdoors. I grew up playing sports and trying anything and everything that piqued my interest. I found a love for the arts in dancing and creative writing at a young age and continue to pursue that path. I love anything that gets my mind working and gets me out of my comfort zone. Travel, meeting new people, new experiences, and a good cup of coffee are passions that this down to earth Seattleite encompass. I live by the motto everything happens for a reason and truly believes you get out of life what you are willing to put in to it. Being a donor, and now working here at The Egg Donor Program has been an amazing experience for me. I feel so lucky that I have been able to give the gift of donation and now play a role in a different side of the journey.
Alex Maron
I was born in Paris, France and grew up in Spain, daughter of an amazing painter and artist Salvador Maron and famous 60's model & designer Willy van Rooy and younger sister of an amazing designer who still lives in Madrid, Spain. I moved with my parents to Los Angeles when I was 13 to pursue modeling. I have been an entrepreneur for a large part of my adult life and my major interests are fashion and art. I am married to a wonderful man and has 3 children. I can only imagine the thrill of a couple being able to attain their dream of starting a family through this wonderful program, I am now part of this great team of women and most of all I am able to see Shelley Smith do what she does with so much passion and love which is to guide and help these amazing people.
Dana Blenkin
Having grown up in Calgary, Canada, I moved to Los Angeles in 1997. Though my family remains there, it was an easy decision to make: after multiple pilgrimages with my family to Newport Beach, Hollywood, and Disneyland, the freeways of Southern California were almost as familiar to me as the Trans-Canada Highway (and even today, travel remains one of my favorite pastimes!). Originally, I moved to follow the dream of so many "acting". While waiting for that elusive break, I began working alongside an accountant at a small firm. That job lasted over eight years, and the career much longer, sustaining me through one adventure after another. My passion turned from acting to history, and in 2008 I graduated summa cum laude with a Bachelor's degree in History. The experience and relationships I culled in accounting over the last 12 years have been invaluable, and eventually lead to the opportunity to work with Shelley Smith. It is truly inspirational to see Shelley, and everyone else here, help breathe hope into dreams almost forgotten. I feel fortunate to work in a place where generosity and graciousness abound, and gifts of happiness to loving couples are a daily occurrence.
Sue Lynn
Records Administrator
I have been working with Shelley Smith for some time now and I can honestly say it has been one of the most heartwarming experiences for me. Originally from a small town in the Western US, I grew up in a large family. It has always been, "family first". So now, working with The Egg Donor Program, it is an amazing thing to help people create their families. They call me "Butters" in the office because I am always concerned about everything going well for people. (Hence the photo!) I am married to a wonderful man and we have an incredible daughter. I have a BA in Theater Arts. I've been an Herbalist for twenty years, am a Reiki Master and am also in the middle of recording an "Earth Consciousness" CD. Basically, I love my life and being a part of The Egg Donor Program has allowed me to watch the joy of life itself unfolding.


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Corpus Christi Caller-Times, Michael Zamora) MANDATORY CREDIT, Associated Press
ROCKPORT, Texas — A long-running thrift store nearly offered even more bang for your buck.
A hand grenade was found inside a purse donated to Castaways Thrift Store a while back.
Police, sheriff's deputies and a bomb squad responded.
The grenade was a dud, but the purse sold for a few bucks to help the area.
Despite being one of the worst items donated, store volunteers say it still benefited the needy.
The store's reputation for offering new stuff each day draws a daily bargain-shopping onslaught that has kept five churches hopping for nearly 40 years. Secondhand sales have provided millions for their ministries, and become a lifeline for more than 30 Aransas County nonprofits by collectively generating about $3 million in recent years for them.
"Each day the shop is run by a different troupe," said Rosy Dunn, a retired teacher, now Castaways chairman. "It's wonderful that five religious groups come together to promote good will and serve the poor. The money we generate is amazing."
Last year the store logged $718,387 in sales, paid about $60,000 in sales tax and made $189,000 in donations to programs that benefit children, elderly, the poor and area volunteer fire and emergency services. That doesn't include about $25,000 in clothing given to Rockport-Fulton's Good Samaritans, Inc., or $6,000 in cash each to it and the Aransas County Council on Aging during the Coastal Bend Day of Giving, Dunn said.
Last year Castaways provided clothes to 1,892 clients of Good Samaritans, said Ken McGee, the assistance agency's 2011 chairman.
"If Castaways were selling stuff at real prices, they would be a multimillion-dollar operation," McGee said. "The amount of money they plow back into this economy is substantial."
The largest amount the store donated last year was $35,000 to Aransas County Medical Emergency Services, Inc., a nonprofit ambulance service that responds to about 3,000 calls annually.
"They have helped us purchase ambulances and essential equipment," said Patricia Arnold, personnel director for the service. "Without them there every year for us, we couldn't do half what we do."
The secret to Castaways' success: Everything that doesn't sell by the end of the month gets a half-off price slash; then if not sold it goes out the back door and onto a Salvation Army truck.
"We used to put it out by the trash bin and let people have a free-for-all," Dunn said. "But folks started fighting over it."
Before the doors open at 9 a.m. daily, the 400 block of North Church Street fills with vehicles of anxious shoppers.
After turning the latch, workers know to get behind the counter as buyers bolt for boxes piled with stuff and prowl through carts not yet unloaded onto shelving or racks.
Rose Ferguson, 71, has shopped there several days weekly for decades, she said.
"I'm usually first in line," Ferguson said. "I've got 30 grandkids and about 15 great-grands, and I collect Indians, chickens, flower pots ... Oh just every day brings another treasure."
Ann Krumm made her husband take her early Wednesday for a small black purse she saw the day before.
"She threatened me with problems," the Tyler native's husband said. "Doesn't take much to make her happy through — a $5.41 purse to put on the closet shelf with 20 others."
Castaways has swelled beyond its space capacity six times, and again needs a larger building.
It began in 1972 with St. Peter's Episcopal Church ladies organizing weekend rummage sales.
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Maned Wolf Pups: Dinner Time
At 4 weeks of age, maned wolf puppies Dora and Diego are ready to start on solid food. Adult maned wolves are omniviorous, meaning they eat both plant material and meat. Here at the zoo, their diet consists of a specially formulated dry kibble, raw meat, and a variety of fruits and vegetables. The first stage of the transition for the puppies is a gruel made with soaked kibble, canned dog food and some formula.
They need a little help at first, and we have put some on our fingers and feed it to them until they get the hang of it. Even then, sometimes they think its more fun to play in their food than to eat it, which means we'll spend the rest of the day smelling like dog food!
Editor's Note: Want to read more about the maned wolf pups? Click HERE and HERE for the two previous post. And come back to the Houston Zoo blog for the next one, posting later this week!


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Dynamic Mid Wave Infrared (MWIR) Attenuator
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AbstractCountermeasures to MWIR imaging devices include non-destructive narrow band infrared lasers that temporarily saturate the sensor and reduce a mission"s intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) effectiveness. Technologies that detect and selectively filter an offending laser wavelength while maintaining thermal imaging capabilities are sought by the Air Force. Infoscitex proposes to develop a dynamically tunable MWIR optical system that can filter a specific threat wavelength detected by a sensor. The remaining portion of the spectrum will remain viewable by the imaging device, thereby maintaining mission capabilities. The advantages to IST"s technical approach for actuation of the filter include fast response time, low jitter, and compatibility with MWIR imaging subcomponents like lenses. Additionally, the approach incorporates novel optical quality polymers that have utility in other wavelength regions. In this Phase I project, IST will develop the discrete system components and demonstrate the principle of operation. During Phase II R & D, the components will be integrated into a high functional prototype during a spiral design process. BENEFIT: The proposed technology will result in tunable filter technology that is compact, lightweight, robust, does not adversely affect ground state transmission, and has a rapid response time. The underlying principle of operation can be readily transferred to other portions of the EM spectrum. In addition to the significant market size for military surveillance imaging systems, the dynamic filter will also have an impact in the industrial chemical sensing sector.
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Next week, I am off to Denver, Colorado to participate in The Supercomputing Conference (SC13). I will also attend HP-CAST and the Intel HPC Roundtable. I am always interested in meeting other people working with ab initio/electronic structure software. Send me an email if you want to meet up.
How to Compile VASP 5.3.3 on Ubuntu 13.10
Here comes a more generic recipe for installing and compiling VASP using only open-source tools (i.e. without Intel's Fortran compiler and MKL). This chould be useful if you want to run smaller calculations on a laptop or an office machine. Below follows how I did it on Ubuntu 13.10 with GCC/Gfortran, OpenMPI, OpenBLAS, FFTW and Netlib SCALAPACK. Please note that compiling VASP with gfortran is not recommended or supported by the VASP developers. From what I can tell, it appears to work, but I have only done limited testing.
First of all you need the VASP source code, which you get from the VASP home page:
Then we need to install some Ubuntu packages. Install either through the Synaptic program or
apt-get in the terminal.
- build-essential
- gfortran
- openmpi1.6-bin
- libopenmpi1.6-dev
- libfftw-double3
- libfttw-single3
- libfftw-dev
This is starting from a completely new Ubuntu installation. If you have done any programming on your machine before, some of these packages could already be installed. For other Linux distributions, you will need to find out the names of the corresponding packages. They should be similar, except for "build-essential", which is specific to Debian.
I did not have much success using Ubuntu's BLAS/LAPACK/ATLAS, so we will need to download the latest OpenBLAS and compile it ourselves from source. The same applies to SCALAPACK, which we have to tie together with our OpenBLAS and the system OpenMPI installation.
Download the latest OpenBLAS tarball from
After decompressing it, you will have a directory called "xianyi-OpenBLAS-….". Go inside and check the
TargetList.txt file. You will have to decide which processor architecture target is appropiate for your processor. For a new Intel processor, "SANDYBRIDGE" should be best, and for a new AMD processor, "BULLDOZER". Here, I choose the safe and conservative option "CORE2", which should work on any recent processor. Then we compile with make.
make FC=gfortran CC=gcc USE_THREAD=0 TARGET=CORE2
This should produce a library called
libopenblas_core2-r0.2.8.a (or similar). Make note of the directory in which you compiled OpenBLAS, you will need it later. Mine was "/home/pla/build/xianyi-OpenBLAS-9c51cdf"
Download the latest SCALAPACK tarball from Netlib.org. To compile it, we need to set up a
SLmake.inc file containing some configuration parameters. Start by copying the
SLmake.inc.example file. You need to update the
BLASLIB and
LAPACKLIB variables and insert a direct reference to your OpenBLAS compilation.
CDEFS = -DAdd_
FC = mpif90
CC = mpicc
ARCH = ar
ARCHFLAGS = cr
RANLIB = ranlib
SCALAPACKLIB = libscalapack.a
BLASLIB = -L/home/pla/build/xianyi-OpenBLAS-9c51cdf -lopenblas
This should be enough to get SCALAPACK to compile by typing "make". In the end, you should get a
libscalapack.a file.
Compiling VASP
Proceed to compile VASP with gfortran according to the previous guide. You need to apply the source code patches described there, otherwise it is straightforward. If you have never compiled VASP before, looking through one of the more detailed system specific guides in the VASP compile section might help.
The makefiles and the source code patch I used are available for download: vasp-ubuntu.tar.gz.
Some highlights (update the paths if necessary):
FFLAGS = -ffree-form -ffree-line-length-0 -fno-second-underscore -I/usr/include
We need to include
-I/usr/include to pick up the FFTW header file.
BLAS= ../../xianyi-OpenBLAS-9c51cdf/libopenblas-core2.a
And refer to the BLAS/LAPACK library from our OpenBLAS installation.
CPP = $(CPP_) -DMPI -DHOST=\"LinuxGfort\" \
-DCACHE_SIZE=4000 -Davoidalloc -DNGZhalf \
-DMPI_BLOCK=262144 -Duse_collective -DscaLAPACK -DMINLOOP=1
And set the precompiler flags. In the MPI section of the makefile, there should be a reference to our compiled SCALAPACK:
Running VASP
The binaries you compile are MPI-enabled, so they should be launched with
mpirun. For example:
mpirun -np 4 ~/build/vasp-5.3.3/vasp.5.3/vasp
You will probably find that the
--bind-to-core option will help performance.
mpirun -np 4 --bind-to-core ~/build/vasp-5.3.3/vasp.5.3/vasp
If you have dual socket workstation, similar to a compute cluster node, I recommend trying:
mpirun -np 16 --bind-to-core --npersocket 8 ~/build/vasp-5.3.3/vasp.5.3/vasp
Exploring Quadruple Precision Floating Point Numbers in GCC and ICC
When doing standard double precision floating point operations in C or Fortran, you can expect 15-17 significant digits. But what do you do when 15 decimals are not enough? The GNU multiple precision arithmetic library is go-to library when you need not 15, but thousands of decimals, but for more modest needs, quadruple precision (128 bits), might be enough. In Fortran, 128 bits is
REAL*16, and in C we can access it by the type
__float128. These may not be availabe in all compilers, but GCC (4.6 and newer) and Intel C/Fortran do support it. According to the GCC manual, we can expect it to be "an order of magnitude or two slower" than double precision.
I decided to test the quad precision by doing a simple matrix-matrix multiplication test. Two 256x256 matrices are initialized with trigonometric expressions and then multiplied by each other. It is straightforward to change the program into quad precision: the
doublearrays should be declared as
__float128, the trig. functions are called
sinq, and we need to use the special function
quadmath_snprintf to print the numbers to the screen. (In Fortran, you don't even need to use a different print function.)
For simplicity, I look specifically at the decimal expansion of one matrix element (0,0). With gcc, I get
$ gcc -o matmul_double -O3 -mavx -std=c99 matmul_double.c -lm
$ ./matmul_double
Matrix size: 256 by 256 (double precision).
Time: 0.010 seconds (3355.4 MFLOP/s)
C(0,0)-diagnostic: -0.0939652685936642
gcc -o matmul_quad -std=c99 -O3 -mavx matmul_quad.c -lquadmath -lm
Matrix size: 256 by 256 (quad precision).
Time: 4.140 seconds (8.1 MFLOP/s)
C(0,0)-diagnostic: -0.093965268593662358578620940776
which confirms that
__float128 works in gcc, but with significant speed penalty. In this case, the difference in runtime is around 1000x.
Does Intel's C compiler fare better?
$ icc -o matmul_double -std=c99 -O3 -xavx mmul_double.c -lm
$ ./matmul_double
Matrix size: 256 by 256 (double precision).
0.000 seconds (inf MFLOP/s)
C(0,0)-diagnostic: -0.0939652685936624
$ icc -o matmul_quad -std=c99 -O3 -mavx -I/software/apps/gcc/4.7.2/lib/gcc/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/4.7.2/include -L/software/apps/gcc/4.7.2/lib64/ matmul_quad.c -lquadmath -lm
$ ./matmul_quad
Matrix size: 256 by 256 (quad precision).
0.880 seconds (38.1 MFLOP/s)
C(0,0)-diagnostic: -0.093965268593662358578620940776
Yes, it is evident that the quad precision floating maths runs a few times faster with ICC, even though the same underlying library is used.
If we actually look at the decimals, and compare the results, we find something interesting. The quad precision results from GCC and ICC are identical, which is assuring, but the double precision binary compiled by ICC delivers higher precision, despite using very high optimization.
GCC(double) -0.09396526859366|42
ICC(double) -0.09396526859366|24
GCC(quad.) -0.09396526859366|2358578620940776
ICC(quad.) -0.09396526859366|2358578620940776
Lowering GCC's optimization did not help, and gcc is not supposed to introduce any unsafe mathematical operations unless explicitly enabled by
-ffast-math or
-Ofast in the first place, so it is unclear to me where the difference comes from. Typically, fluctuations in the last decimal is not a problem in practice for many codes. There are many that run fine with e.g. gcc's
-ffast-math, but if you are struggling with ill-conditioned matrices, every decimal could count.
Shared Memory Communication vs Infiniband
Are bigger servers better for high-performance computing? It is often assumed that communication between processors within a compute node must be faster than using Infiniband networking in a cluster. Consequently, I come across scientists asking for big shared memory servers, believing that their simulations would run much faster there. In reality, it is not always so. In the previous post, I wrote about how the VASP application is bottlenecked by memory bandwidth. In such cases, compute work and communication will compete with each other for precious resources, with severe performance degradation as a result.
Consider this experiment. Let us first run a VASP compute job with 512 bands on a single compute node using 1 to 16 cores. This will give us a scaling graph showing what kind of improvement you can get by using more cores in a server. Now, for comparison, we run the same job but with only one core per compute node. This means that the 16-core job uses 16 compute nodes and only communicates over Infiniband. Which scenario will be faster?
It turns out that communicating only over Infiniband is superior to shared memory. With 16 cores it gives twice as fast calculations. The reason is simply that we throw more hardware at the problem: our processors can now use all the memory bandwidth for computations, while exchanging data over the Infiniband network instead.
The graph above shows that there is no inherent benefit to run an MPI parallelized application such as VASP on a big server vs smaller servers in a cluster connected by Infiniband. The only advantage you get is the increased total amount of available memory per server.
As a user, you can apply techniques like this to speed up your calculations. For example, by using twice as many nodes, but with half the number of cores on each node. On Triolith, you can do like this:
#SBATCH --ntasks-per-node 8
mpprun /software/apps/vasp/5.3.3-18Dec12/default/vasp
This will run your application with 8 cores per compute node, for a total of 128 cores. The improvement in speed compared to using 8 full nodes can be as much as 50%, and you will also have twice as much memory available per processor. The drawback is, of course, that you spend twice the core hours on your calculation. But if it is important to get the results quickly, it might be worth it.
Hardware Recommendations for VASP
I was recently asked what kind of hardware you should for running VASP calculations. I recommend looking at the configuration of the Triolith cluster at NSC. It was designed to run VASP as big part of the workload, and we did extensive benchmarking to optimize price/performance. An alternative is too look through the supercomputing Top500 list for the most recent entries, to get a feel for what the supercomputing centers are buying at the moment. At Top500, they also have a statistics section where you can follow trends in hardware over time. It is obvious, for example, that big shared memory systems have fallen out of favor.
I recommend is dual-socket servers with low clock frequency Intel Xeon E5 processors, connected by Infiniband networking. Why?
Type of CPU: At the moment, Intel's server processors are significantly ahead of AMD's in terms of performance and energy efficiency. VASP is also very reliant on Intel's Fortran compiler. This makes Intel processors an optimal choice. It is possible to run VASP on POWER and SPARC processors, but these server platforms are generally not cost efficient for high-performance computing.
CPU model: VASP is very dependent on high memory bandwidth. It is one of the most memory intensive applications in high-performance computing. This means that you do not need processors with high clock frequency, because they will spend most of their time waiting for data to arrive from memory anyhow. What you need is the cheapest processor model that still comes with maximum memory bandwidth. In the current Xeon E5-2600 series, that is likely to be the 2650 and 2660 models. The quad-core 2643 model could also be interesting, because you typically gain only 25% when going from 8 to 16 cores per node.
Memory: It is crucial to have 1600 Mhz DDR3 memory, which is currently the fastest memory (1866 Mhz will soon come). All four memory channels should be occupied. Try to get dual rank memory modules if you have only 1 DIMM per memory channel – it will improve performance by ca 5%. Typically, 32 GB of memory is enough (2 GB/core), the reason being that you can easily get an equivalent of 4 GB per core by running with half the number of MPI ranks per node without losing too much performance. But if the majority of jobs are of hybrid type or GW, I would go for 64 GB per server instead.
Network: A fast network, like Infiniband, is necessary to run VASP in parallel on more than a few nodes. It is difficult to do comparative studies of different network setups due to the amount of hardware required, but in general VASP scales almost perfectly up to 16 compute nodes using both Mellanox and Qlogic (now Intel) Infiniband, so there is no given winner. FDR Infiniband does not significantly improve performance over QDR for VASP in the few tests I was able to do (+16% on a 16 node job spanning two switches), so I would look at it mostly from a price/performance perspective.
Aflow and Aconvasp
Occasionally, I get enquiries about various kinds of scripts for pre- and post-processing of VASP calculations. A comprehensive set of scripts covering the most common tasks is available within the Aflow high-throughput framework for VASP, developed by the Curtarolo group at Duke University.
To use Aflow on Triolith, just load the "vasptools/0.2" module; it will put the
aconvasp binary and other scripts such as "vasp2cif" and "vaspcheck" into your PATH.
module load vasptools/0.2
Here are some examples of what can you do with Aflow:
aconvasp --cart: convert POSCAR from direct to Cartesian coordinates
aconvasp --data: show basic structure data such as volume, alpha, beta gamma, etc.
aconvasp --volume 170.0: Change the volume of the cell to 170 A3 .
aconvasp --clat 5.0 5.0 7.0 90.0 90.0 120.0: convert (a,b,c,alpha,beta,gamma) to Cartesian basis vectors which can be copy-pasted into POSCAR.
aconvasp --chgdiff CHGCAR.1 CHGCAR.2: subtract charge densities in CHGCAR files. (But it seems to be broken when I test it.)
aconvasp --supercell 2 2 2: make supercell out of an existing POSCAR.
aconvasp --swap 0 1: swap coordinates of atomic species 0 and 1 in the POSCAR file.
aconvasp --spacegroup: spacegroup and symmetry detection.
aconvasp --cif: generate a CIF file from POSCAR.
aconvasp --xyz: generate an xyz file from POSCAR.
You can find more information in the full documentation. If you use aconvasp or aflow, don't forget to cite their paper:
S. Curtarolo, W. Setyawan, G. L. W. Hart, M. Jahnatek, R. V. Chepulskii, R. H. Taylor, S. Wang, J. Xue, K. Yang, O. Levy, M. Mehl, H. T. Stokes, D. O. Demchenko, and D. Morgan, AFLOW: an automatic framework for high-throughput materials discovery, Comp. Mat. Sci. 58, 218-226 (2012).
Auto-parallelization Applied to the Elk LAPW Code
This week we are running a course in parallel programming with OpenMP at NSC. Joachim Hein from LUNARC is teaching and a few of us from NSC are helping out with the programming labs.
It is often said that parallel programming can be incredibly hard, and that there is currently no reliable way to automatically parallelize an existing serial program. This statement is still true in general, but sometimes, parallel programming can also be embarrassingly easy. Why? Because while automatic parallelization is not perfect, it can still give you some improvement. There are also many subroutines in BLAS, LAPACK and FFTW that are already parallelized, and since many programs rely on these libraries, they can see speed-up on multicore processors by just linking the right library version and setting
OMP_NUM_THREADS=X in the shell.
Let us consider the Elk FP-LAPW code . It is written in Fortran90, and has already been parallelized using both OpenMP and MPI. But what could we have done in the hypothetical case of starting out with the serial version of Elk? How good is automatic parallelization? It will surely not get us all the way, but every percent counts, because you essentially get it for free. It is merely a question of finding the relevant compiler flags.
To establish a baseline, I have Elk compiled without any special compiler flags or machine-optimized numerical libraries. This may seem naive and unrealistic, but in reality, it is not uncommon to come across scientific software built without any compiler optimizations flags or optimized linear algebra libraries such as GotoBLAS, MKL, or ATLAS. (In my experience, it is not so much a result of ignorance, but rather technical problems with compilation and/or lack of time for tinkering.)
The test case I am using is the YBCO example distributed with Elk (13 atoms) with the
rgkmax parameter increased to 7.0 to get longer runtime.
The first step in our hypothetical example is to simply add "-O3" optimization. This gives us 9% speed boost. The next crucial step is to replace the bundled BLAS, LAPACK and FFT libraries with Intel's MKL libraries, which improves the speed by 27%. And finally, we activate the compiler's automatic threaded parallelization, which gives us +80%. The results can then be compared with the production version of Elk for Triolith, which uses aggressive compiler optimizations, MKL libraries, and has manual OpenMP parallelization.
We can see that automatic parallelization gives a modest speed-up of 1.7x using 16 cores on a Triolith compute node. Still, this is not too bad compared with the OpenMP parallelized version which gets 5.0x over the serial version in total, but only 2x of that is actually due to the OpenMP constructs in the code. So essentially, we get half of the parallelization done automatically for free, without having to change any Fortran code.
Another way of looking at this graph is that it can really pay off to spend some time looking into the best way to compile and link a program. The optimized auto-parallel version is 2.5x faster than the naive version built just from the Elk source with integrated numerical libraries.
Most of tricks I used to compile Elk in this example are listed in the Triolith User Guide. If you encounter problems compiling your own program on Triolith, or need help with choosing the best libraries, please don't hesitate to contact email@example.com.
Atomic Simulation Environment on Triolith
Yesterday, I installed a new version of the Atomic Simulation Environment on Triolith. ASE allows you to script your ab initio calculations using Python. Here comes a tutorial on how you can run VASP calculations with ASE on Triolith. It is a little bit more elaborate than the official documentation of VASP module which can be found on the ASE web site.
First, we need to load the Python and ASE modules. I recommend the
python/2.7.4-snic-1 module.
module load python/2.7.4-snic-1 ase/3.7.1
Next, we need to tell ASE's VASP module where to find the VASP binaries and the POTCARs files.
export VASP_COMMAND="mpprun /software/apps/vasp/5.3.3-18Dec12/default/vasp"
export VASP_PP_PATH=/software/apps/vasp/POTCARs
Note that ASE requires that there are directories called
potpaw_GGA and
potpaw_PBE below the
VASP_PP_PATH, so you may have to create symlinks with these names if you don't have them in your own database.
Now, we need to create the actual ASE Python script that sets up the calculation. The idea in this little example is to calculate the equilibrium volume and bulk modulus of hcp Mg.
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The script works like this: first, we create cells for 10 different volumes and at the same time attach VASP settings to them, then we call
get_potential_energy() for each of these cells and collect the energies and volumes, and finally, we use ASE's built-in equation of state subroutine to calculate the equilibrium volume and bulk modulus.
To run this script on a Triolith compute node, we need to create a job script. In the job script, we just launch the Python script, which will start ASE and then launch VASP for us.
#SBATCH -J mg
#SBATCH --exclusive
#SBATCH -t 0:10:00
python mg-hcp.py
Submit by
sbatchas usual.
sbatch mg.sh
When the job has completed (it should not take more than a few minutes), look in the slurm.out file for the output from ASE.
[pla@triolith1 asetest]$ cat slurm-693921.out
Calculation output
Volumes: [30.469003876435877, 32.782153276649034, 35.209509626875203, 37.753824901813466, 40.417851076162975, 43.204340124622782, 46.116044021892051, 49.155714742669836, 52.326104261655324, 55.629964553547552]
Energies: [-1.86460718, -2.2747034, -2.5757448, -2.78654685, -2.92182549, -2.99416931, -3.01374966, -2.99022215, -2.93151648, -2.84418079]
Equation of state parameters
E0: -3.013844 eV
B: 36.5 GPa
The experimental bulk modulus of Mg is ca 45 GPa, so the result seems reasonable.
Compiling VASP With Gfortran
For some time, VASP has been centered on the x86 processors and Intel's Fortran compiler. Inside the VASP source distribution, you can find some makefiles for other compilers, but they seldom work nowadays, and in many cases you need to make modifications to the source code to make it work with other compilers.
In particular, recent versions of Gfortran cannot compile VASP. If you try, the compiler would stop at errors concerning a circular dependency of a module (i.e. the module includes itself), and some output formatting errors.
From what I can understand, these problems are actually related to violations of the Fortran language standard, which are allowed by the Intel compiler. There are no compiler flags for gfortran that let you "relax" the standard like this to let it compile VASP, so you need to modify the source to make it compliant.
When I tested with gcc 4.7.2 and gcc 4.8.0, four files needed to be modified: us.F, vdwforcefield.F, finite_diff.F, and spinsym.F. I have prepared the patches as a "patch file" which you can download. To apply the patches to the source code, locate your VASP 5.3.3 source code directory and do
cd vasp.5.3
patch -p0 < vasp533gcc.patch
In the makefile, you need to set the following compiler flags for gfortran.
FC = mpif90 (or similar depending on the MPI)
FFLAGS = -ffree-form -ffree-line-length-0 -fno-second-underscore
OFLAG=-O3 -march=corei7-avx -mtune=corei7-avx
Global -O3 optimization seems to work for me on Triolith (Xeon E5 processors), but I haven't tested all functionality of the gfortran version yet. As with the Intel compiler, you may have to decrease the optimization or disable aggressive inlining in certain files.
In the preprocessor section, put something like this. Note that you should not use the
-DPGF90 flag when compiling with gfortran.
-Duse_collective -DCACHE_SIZE=12000 -Davoidalloc -DNGZhalf\
These tricks made it for me, and I now have a reference version of VASP compiled with Gfortran on Triolith. The speed seems to be about same as when compiled with Intel Fortran, since VASP relies heavily on FFTWs and BLAS calls and I still link with MKL and Intel's MPI.
Later, I will try to make a longer guide how to compile VASP with a fully free software stack, and compare performance and stability.
Scaling of Small Jobs on the Abisko Interlagos Cluster
I promised some multi-node scaling tests of the LiFeSiO4 128-atom job in the previous post. Here they come! The choice of NPAR is of particular interest. Do the old rules of
NPAR=compute nodesor
NPAR=sqrt(number of MPI ranks) still apply here?
To recap: when running on one node, I found that
NPAR=3 with 24 cores per compute node and a special MPI process binding scheme (round-robin over NUMA zones) gave the best performance. To check if it still applies across nodes, I ran a full characterization again, but this time with 2 compute nodes. In total, this was 225 calculations!
Inspecting the data points shows us that the same approach comes out winning again. Using 24 cores/compute node is still much more effective (+30%) than using all the cores, and
NPAR=6 is the best choice. Specifying process binding is essential, but the choice of a particular scheme does not influence as much as in the single node case, presumably because some of the load imbalance now happens in between nodes, which we cannot address this way.
From this I conclude that a reasonable scheme for choosing NPAR indeed seems to be:
NPAR = 3 * compute nodes
Or, if we have a recent version of VASP:
The "RR-NUMA" process binding has to be specified explicitly when you start VASP on Abisko:
srun --cpu_bind=map_cpu=0,6,12,18,24,30,36,42,2,8,14,20,26,32,38,44,4,10,16,22,28,34,40,46 /path/to/vasp
When using these settings, the parallel scaling for 1-8 compute nodes looks decent up to 4 compute nodes:
Remember that each node has 48 cores, of which we are using 24 cores, so 4 nodes = 96 MPI ranks. We get a top speed of about 30 Jobs/h. But what does this mean? It seems appropriate to elaborate on the choice of units here, as I have gotten questions about why I measure the speed like this instead of using wall time as a proxy for speed. The reasons is that you could interpret the "Speed" value on the y-axis as the number of geometry optimization steps you could run in one hour of wall time on the cluster. This is something which is directly relevant when doing production calculations.
For reference, we can compare the speeds above with Triolith. On Triolith, the same job (but with 512 bands instead of 480) tops out at about 38 Jobs/h with 16 compute nodes and 256 ranks. So the parallel scaling looks a bit weak compared Triolith, but the absolute time to solution is still good.


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Patient satisfaction does not necessarily reflect the quality of the surgical care patients receive, according to a study.
"We found that the quality of what goes on in the operating room doesnt closely correlate with the patients perception of the quality of his or her medical care," Martin A. Makary, MD, MPH, the studys lead author and an associate professor of surgery at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore, said in a news release. "It is important for patient satisfaction to be tracked and transparent, but the quality of the actual care may be independent of that. Its misleading to say a patient satisfaction score says it all."
Patient satisfaction is becoming a front-and-center issue in the healthcare conversation, Makary noted, because the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services in 2012 finalized details of a new reimbursement method that adjusts payments based in part on patient satisfaction scores. The measure also is being adopted by private insurers. Patient satisfaction scores may appear as the only scores on websites seeking to help patients make more informed choices about where to seek healthcare.
Makary and his colleagues thought the notion of patient satisfaction as the ultimate metric of healthcare quality needed to be evaluated. Published in the April issue of JAMA Surgery (formerly the Archives of Surgery), their research found that while the metric may be easy to apply, it does not appear to be a comprehensive measure of overall quality, particularly for procedure-based care such as surgery.
The researchers compared the performance of 31 U.S. hospitals on the Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems Survey, the CMS Surgical Care Improvement Program and the employee Safety Attitudes Questionnaire.
Among the questions asked of patients on the HCAHPS were inquiries about nursing care, cleanliness of the hospital, experiences such as pain management, and explanations of new medicines and follow-up on discharge. Surgical care quality was judged on evidence-based measures such as infection prevention, blood clot prevention and timely removal of catheters. Safety attitude questions focused on teamwork, job satisfaction, working conditions and perceptions about the management of the hospital.
Results showed no link between patient satisfaction scores and surgical care quality scores, although the researchers did find a correlation between patient satisfaction scores and employees feelings about the teamwork and safety climate in their hospital.
"The better the workplace culture for staff, the more satisfied the patients," Makary said. "In any industry, if the employees feel good about their workplace, they are more likely to have satisfied customers.
"Doctors and nurses feel strongly that wide variations in teamwork culture are behind wide variations in quality, but there hasnt been a lot of focus on culture in the past."
Makary emphasized that patient satisfaction should be a hospital priority, patients should receive prompt and timely care, should be educated about their medical options and should feel they have been treated with courtesy and respect. But he wants to see better instruments developed to capture good technical skills, sound medical judgment and other aspects of quality medical care.
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WASHIINGTON (WJLA) - The push to change the name of Washington's professional football team is led by the Native American tribe, Oneida Indian Nation - which made the primary effort that managed to make national headlines and even prompt a response from President Obama.
But eliminating the name "Redskins" is not a new fight for local Native American leaders.
"For us to be in the 21st century and still use a racial slur to identify the name of a professional football team..." says a disapproving Jay "Winter" Nightwolf.
Nightwolf is a member of the Cherokee Indian tribe, and along with executive producer Ramon Grimaldi, he hosts "American-Indian Truths" on Pacifica Radio's WPFW FM.
For almost 20 years, they have been trying to bring attention to what they call the degrading, racist, and genocidal term of "Redskins" - a name they saw was first used 600 years ago in the newly settled America.
"it's two words: red, skin. The red skin that had to be shown to get money for slaughtering the Native American," they explain.
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IOWA CITY, Iowa -- University of Iowa senior wide receiver Keenan Davis is going on an 11-city road trip, compliments of the Big Ten Network.
Technically, an image of Davis is making the trip, not the Hawkeye who caught 50 passes a year ago.
An image of the 6-foot-3, 215-pound Davis is part of a wrap covering the BTN bus that is making its annual tour to all 12 Big Ten Conference football preseason camps. Davis and his teammates noticed the bus when they left practice Tuesday.
"We got our snack at night and the bus was parked on a street we were turning on," Davis said. "Everyone looked and asked, `Is that Keenan on the bus?' We all started to laugh about it."
The University of Iowa was the first stop on the BTN tour, and following practice, Davis was asked to provide the first autograph on the side of the bus, just below his action photo.
"I think it's up there," said Davis, when asked if signing a bus was his oddest autograph request. "By far."
Dimensions of the bus are 45-feet long, 102-inches wide, and 12.2 feet high. The image of Davis is on the driver's side along with images of Illinois quarterback Nathan Scheelhaase, Indiana running back Stephen Houston, Michigan quarterback Denard Robinson, Michigan State defensive end William Gholston, and Minnesota wide receiver Brandon Green. Below the players are the words "40+ Football games...BTN.com."
"It's an honor, it feels good," Davis said. "It's a good picture, I guess. Hopefully they got my good side."
The BTN chronicled the first Hawkeye practice of the day Wednesday; its Big Ten Football Preview Tour show will air Thursday, Aug. 9, at 9 p.m. (CT).
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Texas Memory Systems has broken the 1 million input/output operations per second barrier with a flash storage system deployed by a U.S. customer.
Texas Memory Systems has broken the 1 million input/output operations per second barrier with a flash storage system deployed by a U.S. customer, the company announced Tuesday.
Texas Memory's RamSan-5000 is the first flash memory-based solid state disk system that can process 1 million IOPS, the vendor said.
IBM boasted in August that it cracked the 1 million IOPS barrier in research known as Project Quicksilver, but IBM did not say when its 1 million IOPS technology would be available for sale. (Compare storage products.)
Texas Memory's flash, already on the market, can scale up to several million IOPS, either by installing a Turbo feature that costs extra or by simply increasing capacity, says Woody Hutsell, executive vice president of the company. But last month was the first time a customer deployed a flash system delivering 1 million IOPS, Hutsell said.
The 5000 deployment combines 10 RamSan-500 arrays, each of which delivers 100,000 IOPS. A customer could combine 20 such arrays for 2 million IOPS, Hutsell notes.
Texas Memory has been selling solid-state disks for about 30 years, specializing in RAM-based drives. Texas Memory began selling flash-based storage this year in response to market trends driven by adoption of flash by consumers and EMC's decision to sell flash to corporate IT departments.
A 1 million IOPS, RamSan-5000 with 20TB of RAID-protected flash memory would cost roughly $1.5 million, Hutsell says. A RAM-based solid state system that delivers more than 1 million IOPS would cost about $400,000 but include just 1TB of storage.
Hutsell said he can't reveal which customer deployed the 20TB, 1 million IOPS flash system, but his company says it would be useful for accelerating the most critical applications used by large enterprise, government, military and research organizations.
Working with either Fibre Channel or InfiniBand interfaces, and with a RAM cache of 640GB, the system reaches 1 million random read IOPS with response times of less than 1 millisecond.
"The unique combination of RAM cache to accelerate writes and flash memory to accelerate reads results in a system that is optimally balanced for critical enterprise, research and government applications, such as large [online transaction processing] systems or data warehouses, video on demand, data rendering, geospatial analysis, seismic processing and data acquisition," Texas Memory states.
Flash memory has gained attention among enterprise IT executives because of its fast performance and energy efficiency. When Sun Microsystems launched plans to embed flash into servers this year, storage chief John Fowler said that flash consumes one-fifth the power of rotating disk drives and is a hundred times faster.
The Ram-San-5000 requires 3,000 watts of power and occupies 40U of rack space.
"Deploying a hard disk-based system with similar performance would require 5,000 hard disk drives, consume over 90,000 watts of power and require at least five racks," Texas Memory said.