Applications
Overview
ClearSpeed provides support for a growing number of software applications. While some applications benefit from plug and play acceleration many others require a port to take full advantage of the performance offered by ClearSpeed accelerator solutions.
There are several applications that benefit from ClearSpeed acceleration, each with the necessary documentation to help with the installation process. Each of these applications are compatible with the Release 2 software.
Amber
A set of Amber 9 Sander Implicit methods have been modified to take advantage of the ClearSpeed Advance X620 and Advance e620 acceleration. This includes the effective radius and force calculation of Amber's Generalized Born (GB) models 1, 2, 5 and 6. To access the download click here.
ClearSpeed Amber Installation Guide (PDF)
Instructions for installing the Amber Implicit CS 1.2 package to experience ClearSpeed Acceleration
ClearSpeed Finance Technical Examples
The ClearSpeed Finance Examples have been created to demonstrate the performance capabilities when porting standard quantitative financial codes to the ClearSpeed Advance Accelerator card. With the Black-Scholes pricing model as the main function, examples with additional numerical method are available within each package to demonstrate the pricing on vanilla options. ClearSpeed Finance Examples each have an accompanying source code implementation and consists of the following. For download information click here.
- European Option Black-Scholes Analytic Solution
- European Option via Binomial Tree
- American Option via Brodie-Glasserman Tree
- American Option via Explicit Finite Differences
- Asian Option via Monte Carlo
ClearSpeed Finance Technical Examples (PDF)
Instructions for installing the ClearSpeed Finance Examples package and a discussion of the implementation for each finance example
LINPACK Getting Started Guide
HPL is the standard benchmark in HPC and is the basis of the Top500 supercomputer ranking. HPL can be run on a cluster of servers. Those server nodes can be accelerated with ClearSpeed Advance cards and use the CSXL library to accelerate calls to DGEMM made by HPL.
The standard implementation of HPL will work with the CSXL library, however, extra performance and greater scalability will be achieved using ClearSpeed's modified HPL.
ClearSpeed's version of HPL is modified to more efficiently overlap MPI communication with computation. It has also been instrumented to allow the ClearSpeed visual profiler to be used for performance visualization and tuning. To support this version of HPL, a modified version of the MPI library (MPICH) is provided to handle larger message sizes.
For download information click here.
Linpack Getting Started Guide
(PDF)
Instructions for installing the ClearSpeed HPL package to experience ClearSpeed Acceleration