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Molecular dynamics (MD) simulation is a powerful computational tool to study the behavior of macromolecular systems. But many simulations of this field are limited in spatial or temporal scale by the available computational resource. In…

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Improving time-to-solution in molecular dynamics simulations often requires strong scaling due to fixed-sized problems. GROMACS is highly latency-sensitive, with peak iteration rates in the sub-millisecond, making scalability on…

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Since its inception in 1995, LAMMPS has grown to be a world-class molecular dynamics code, with thousands of users, over one million lines of code, and multi-scale simulation capabilities. We discuss how LAMMPS has adapted to the modern…

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