Massively Parallel Quantum Chemistry: PFAS on Over 1 Million Cloud vCPUs

Date:

July 20, 2023

2023

Type:

Preprint

Publication:

ArXiv

Author(s):

Alan E. Rask, Lee Huntington, SungYeon Kim, David Walker, Andrew Wildman, Rodrigo Wang, Nicole Hazel, Alan Judi, James T. Pegg, Punit K. Jha, Zara Mayimfor, Carl Dukatz, Hassan Naseri, Ilan Gleiser, Maxime R. Hugues, Paul M. Zimmerman, Arman Zaribafiyan, Rudi Plesch, Takeshi Yamazaki

Topic:

Abstract

Accurate solutions to the electronic Schrödinger equation can provide valuable insight for electron interactions within molecular systems, accelerating the molecular design and discovery processes in many different applications. However, the availability of such accurate solutions are limited to small molecular systems due to both the extremely high computational complexity and the challenge of operating and executing these workloads on high-performance compute clusters. This work presents a massively scalable cloud-based quantum chemistry platform by implementing a highly parallelizable quantum chemistry method that provides a polynomial-scaling approximation to full configuration interaction (FCI). Our platform orchestrates more than one million virtual CPUs on the cloud to analyze the bond-breaking behaviour of carbon-fluoride bonds of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) with near-exact accuracy within the chosen basis set. This is the first quantum chemistry calculation utilizing more than one million virtual CPUs on the cloud and is the most accurate electronic structure computation of PFAS bond breaking to date.

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