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Molecular dynamics (MD) has become a powerful tool for studying biophysical systems, due to increasing computational power and availability of software. Although MD has made many contributions to better understanding these complex…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-09-27 Yihang Wang , Joao Marcelo Lamim Ribeiro , Pratyush Tiwary

In molecular dynamics (MD), systems are molecules made up of atoms, and the aim is to determine their evolution over time. MD is based on a numerical resolution algorithm, whose role is to apply the forces generated by the various…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-10-16 Frédéric Boussinot

We present an efficient open-source implementation of the multiparticle collision dynamics (MPCD) algorithm that scales to run on hundreds of graphics processing units (GPUs). We especially focus on optimizations for modern GPU…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2018-08-01 Michael P. Howard , Athanassios Z. Panagiotopoulos , Arash Nikoubashman

Molecular dynamics (MD) simulation predicts the trajectory of atoms by solving Newton's equation of motion with a numeric integrator. Due to physical constraints, the time step of the integrator need to be small to maintain sufficient…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-12-22 Tianze Zheng , Weihao Gao , Chong Wang

Molecular dynamics (MD) simulations play an important role in understanding and engineering heat transport properties of complex materials. An essential requirement for reliably predicting heat transport properties is the use of accurate…

GROMACS is a de-facto standard for classical Molecular Dynamics (MD). The rise of AI-driven interatomic potentials that pursue near-quantum accuracy at MD throughput now poses a significant challenge: embedding neural-network inference into…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-04-09 Luca Pennati , Andong Hu , Ivy Peng , Lukas Müllender , Stefano Markidis

Molecular dynamics (MD) simulations and computer-aided drug design (CADD) have advanced substantially over the past two decades, thanks to continuous computer hardware and software improvements. Given these advancements, MD simulations are…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2023-11-29 Mayar Ahmed , Alex M. Maldonado , Jacob D. Durrant

In this paper we have explored computationally the solidification process of large nickel clusters. This process has the characteristic features of the first order phase transition occurring in a finite system. The focus of our research is…

Computational Physics · Physics 2012-10-15 Alexander V. Yakubovich , Gennady Sushko , Stefan Schramm , Andrey V. Solov'yov

Micro-macro models provide a powerful tool to study the relationship between microscale mechanisms and emergent macroscopic behavior. However, the detailed microscopic modeling may require tracking and evolving a high-dimensional…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-08-13 Steven Cook , Tamar Shinar

The Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) is a powerful tool for parallel computing. In the past years the performance and capabilities of GPUs have increased, and the Compute Unified Device Architecture (CUDA) - a parallel computing architecture…

Computational Physics · Physics 2009-12-17 Ferenc Molnar , Tamas Szakaly , Robert Meszaros , Istvan Lagzi

Mesoscopic numerical simulations provide a unique approach for the quantification of the chemical influences on red blood cell functionalities. The transport Dissipative Particles Dynamics (tDPD) method can lead to such effective multiscale…

Computational Physics · Physics 2017-06-07 Ansel L. Blumers , Yu-Hang Tang , Zhen Li , Xuejin Li , George E. Karniadakis

Highly-parallel graphics processing units (GPUs) can improve the speed of micromagnetic simulations significantly as compared to conventional computing using central processing units (CPUs). We present a strategy for performing…

Computational Physics · Physics 2015-12-18 C. L. Jermain , G. E. Rowlands , R. A. Buhrman , D. C. Ralph

Molecular dynamics (MD) simulations provide detailed insight into atomic-scale mechanisms but are inherently restricted to small spatio-temporal scales. Coarse-grained molecular dynamics (CGMD) techniques allow simulations of much larger…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-02-10 Yangshuai Wang , Gabor Csanyi , Christoph Ortner

We accelerated an ab-initio molecular QMC calculation by using GPGPU. Only the bottle-neck part of the calculation is replaced by CUDA subroutine and performed on GPU. The performance on a (single core CPU + GPU) is compared with that on a…

Computational Physics · Physics 2012-04-06 Yutaka Uejima , Tomoharu Terashima , Ryo Maezono

The use of graphics processing units for scientific computations is an emerging strategy that can significantly speed up various different algorithms. In this review, we discuss advances made in the field of computational physics, focusing…

Computational Physics · Physics 2013-03-07 Ari Harju , Topi Siro , Filippo Federici-Canova , Samuli Hakala , Teemu Rantalaiho

A modern graphics processing unit (GPU) is able to perform massively parallel scientific computations at low cost. We extend our implementation of the checkerboard algorithm for the two dimensional Ising model [T. Preis et al., J. Comp.…

Computational Physics · Physics 2010-07-22 Benjamin Block , Peter Virnau , Tobias Preis

Molecular dynamics (MD) simulates the time evolution of atomic systems governed by interatomic forces, and the fidelity of these simulations depends critically on the underlying force model. Classical force fields (CFFs) rely on fixed…

Performance · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Udari De Alwis , Benjamin E. Mayer , Tom J. Ashby , Maria Barrera , Timon Evenblij , Joyjit Kundu

Lattice spin models are useful for studying critical phenomena and allow the extraction of equilibrium and dynamical properties. Simulations of such systems are usually based on Monte Carlo (MC) techniques, and the main difficulty is often…

Computational Physics · Physics 2012-09-13 Tal Levy , Guy Cohen , Eran Rabani

The conductor-like polarization model (C-PCM) with switching/Gaussian smooth discretization is a widely used implicit solvation model in chemical simulations. However, its application in quantum mechanical calculations of large-scale…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2015-07-03 Fang Liu , Nathan Luehr , Heather J. Kulik , Todd J. Martínez

We test the performances of two different approaches to the computation of forces for molecular dynamics simulations on Graphics Processing Units. A "vertex-based" approach, where a computing thread is started per particle, is compared to a…

Computational Physics · Physics 2014-10-01 Lorenzo Rovigatti , Petr Šulc , István Z. Reguly , Flavio Romano