Massively Parallel Density Functional Theory Calculations of Large Transition Metal Clusters
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We report on ab initio density functional theory (DFT) calculations of structural properties of large elementary transition metal clusters with up to 561 atoms, corresponding to a diameter of about 2.5 nm, which is a relevant size for practical applications. The calculations were carried out on an IBM Blue Gene/L supercomputer, showing that reasonable scaling up to 1024 processors and beyond can be achieved with modern pseudopotential plane wave codes.
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