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Performing alchemical transformations, in which one molecular system is nonphysically changed to another system, is a popular approach adopted in performing free energy calculations associated with various biophysical processes, such as…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-12-15 Wei-Tse Hsu , Valerio Piomponi , Pascal T. Merz , Giovanni Bussi , Michael R. Shirts

Molecular dynamics (MD) enables the study of physical systems with excellent spatiotemporal resolution but suffers from severe time-scale limitations. To address this, enhanced sampling methods have been developed to improve exploration of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-06-19 Shams Mehdi , Zachary Smith , Lukas Herron , Ziyue Zou , Pratyush Tiwary

We provided a concise and self-contained introduction to molecular dynamics (MD) simulation, which involves a body of fundamentals needed for all MD users. The associated computer code, simulating a gas of classical particles interacting…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-04-01 Ashkan Shekaari , Mahmoud Jafari

We present a framework for efficiently performing Monte Carlo wave-function simulations in cavity QED with moving particles. It relies heavily on the object-oriented programming paradigm as realised in C++, and is extensible and applicable…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 A. Vukics , H. Ritsch

The significant increase in software production, driven by the acceleration of development cycles over the past two decades, has led to a steady rise in software vulnerabilities, as shown by statistics published yearly by the CVE program.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-12-11 Dyna Soumhane Ouchebara , Stéphane Dupont

Getting the best performance from the ever-increasing number of hardware platforms has been a recurring challenge for data processing systems. In recent years, the advent of data science with its increasingly numerous and complex types of…

Recent advancements in reasoning-based Large Language Models (LLMs), particularly their potential through test-time scaling, have created significant opportunities for distillation in code generation and critique. However, progress in both…

Graphic Processing Units (GPUs) have become ubiquitous in scientific computing. However, writing efficient GPU kernels can be challenging due to the need for careful code tuning. To automatically explore the kernel optimization space,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-03-23 Stijn Heldens , Ben van Werkhoven

Version 2.10 of the Distributed and Unified Numerics Environment DUNE introduces a range of enhancements across its core and extension modules, with a continued emphasis on modern C++ integration and improved usability. This release extends…

There is a pressing need for better development methods and tools to keep up with the growing demand and increasing complexity of new software systems. New types of user interfaces, the need for intelligent components, sustainability…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-08-01 Jordi Cabot

Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) achieve versatility by reformulating diverse tasks into a unified instruction-following framework via instruction tuning. However, real-world deployment requires continuous adaptation to emerging…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Jun-Tao Tang , Yu-Cheng Shi , Zhen-Hao Xie , Da-Wei Zhou

The purpose of this paper is to introduce Condensed-Matter-Laboratory (CML) application for simulating solids and nanostructures and calculating different properties of them by density functional theory and using Green's function theory in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-05-30 Mohammad Nakhaee , S Ahmad Ketabi , Saeed Amiri , M Ali M Keshtan , Mahmoud Moallem , Elham Rahmati , M Taher Pakbaz

We develop an algorithm suitable for parallel molecular dynamics simulations in $d$ spatial dimensions and describe its implementation in C++. All routines work in arbitrary $d$; the maximum simulated $d$ is limited only by available…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-05-18 Robert S. Hoy , Kevin A. Interiano-Alberto

Despite impressive advancements in recent multimodal reasoning approaches, they are still limited in flexibility and efficiency, as these models typically process only a few fixed modality inputs and require updates to numerous parameters.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-21 Shoubin Yu , Jaehong Yoon , Mohit Bansal

The rapid growth of deep learning has driven exponential increases in model parameters and computational demands. NVIDIA GPUs and their CUDA-based software ecosystem provide robust support for parallel computing, significantly alleviating…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Jiaqi Lv , Xufeng He , Yanchen Liu , Xu Dai , Aocheng Shen , Yinghao Li , Jiachen Hao , Jianrong Ding , Yang Hu , Shouyi Yin

Probabilistic Programming Languages (PPLs) are a powerful tool in machine learning, allowing highly expressive generative models to be expressed succinctly. They couple complex inference algorithms, implemented by the language, with an…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2020-10-19 Alexander Collins , Vinod Grover

Scalable and efficient numerical simulations continue to gain importance, as computation is firmly established as the third pillar of discovery, alongside theory and experiment. Meanwhile, the performance of computing hardware grows through…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-06-26 Pietro Incardona , Antonio Leo , Yaroslav Zaluzhnyi , Rajesh Ramaswamy , Ivo F. Sbalzarini

We present the CALVADOS package for performing simulations of biomolecules using OpenMM and the coarse-grained CALVADOS model. The package makes it easy to run simulations using the family of CALVADOS models of biomolecules including…

HOOMD-blue is a particle simulation engine designed for nano- and colloidal-scale molecular dynamics and hard particle Monte Carlo simulations. It has been actively developed since March 2007 and available open source since August 2008.…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-10-21 Joshua A. Anderson , Jens Glaser , Sharon C. Glotzer

The complexities of today's materials simulations demand computer codes which are both powerful and highly flexible. A researcher should be able to readily choose different geometries, different materials and different algorithms without…