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We identify hardware that is optimal to produce molecular dynamics trajectories on Linux compute clusters with the GROMACS 2018 simulation package. Therefore, we benchmark the GROMACS performance on a diverse set of compute nodes and relate…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-05-16 Carsten Kutzner , Szilárd Páll , Martin Fechner , Ansgar Esztermann , Bert L. de Groot , Helmut Grubmüller

One of application that needs high performance computing resources is molecular d ynamic. There is some software available that perform molecular dynamic, one of these is a well known GROMACS. Our previous experiment simulating molecular…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2012-10-17 Heru Suhartanto , Arry Yanuar , Ari Wibisono

GROMACS is a widely used package for biomolecular simulation, and over the last two decades it has evolved from small-scale efficiency to advanced heterogeneous acceleration and multi-level parallelism targeting some of the largest…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2015-06-03 Páll Szilárd , Mark James Abraham , Carsten Kutzner , Berk Hess , Erik Lindahl

GROMACS is a widely-used molecular dynamics software package with a focus on performance, portability, and maintainability across a broad range of platforms. Thanks to its early algorithmic redesign and flexible heterogeneous…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-09-26 Andrey Alekseenko , Szilárd Páll , Erik Lindahl

Classical molecular dynamics (MD) simulations are important tools in life and material sciences since they allow studying chemical and biological processes in detail. However, the inherent scalability problem of particle-particle…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-08-14 Michael Schaffner , Luca Benini

Molecular dynamics facilitates the simulation of a complex system to be analyzed at molecular and atomic levels. Simulations can last a long period of time, even months. Due to this cause the graphics processing units (GPUs) and multi-core…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-02-02 Iuliana Marin , Nicolae Goga , Maria Goga

A range of computational biology software (GROMACS, AMBER, NAMD, LAMMPS, OpenMM, Psi4 and RELION) was benchmarked on a representative selection of HPC hardware, including AMD EPYC 7742 CPU nodes, NVIDIA V100 and AMD MI250X GPU nodes, and an…

We assess costs and efficiency of state-of-the-art high performance cloud computing compared to a traditional on-premises compute cluster. Our use case are atomistic simulations carried out with the GROMACS molecular dynamics (MD) toolkit…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-05-16 Carsten Kutzner , Christian Kniep , Austin Cherian , Ludvig Nordstrom , Helmut Grubmüller , Bert L. de Groot , Vytautas Gapsys

The introduction of accelerator devices such as graphics processing units (GPUs) has had profound impact on molecular dynamics simulations and has enabled order-of-magnitude performance advances using commodity hardware. To fully reap these…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-10-28 Szilárd Páll , Artem Zhmurov , Paul Bauer , Mark Abraham , Magnus Lundborg , Alan Gray , Berk Hess , Erik Lindahl

We present a GPU implementation of LAMMPS, a widely-used parallel molecular dynamics (MD) software package, and show 5x to 13x single node speedups versus the CPU-only version of LAMMPS. This new CUDA package for LAMMPS also enables…

Materials Science · Physics 2011-03-08 Christian R. Trott , Lars Winterfeld , Paul S. Crozier

Molecular dynamics simulations are essential tools in computational biophysics, but their performance depend heavily on hardware choices and configuration. In this work, we presents a comprehensive performance analysis of four NVIDIA GPU…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-10-09 Ayesha Afzal , Anna Kahler , Georg Hager , Gerhard Wellein

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…

Computational Physics · Physics 2010-01-22 Ji Xu , Ying Ren , Wei Ge , Xiang Yu , Xiaozhen Yang , Jinghai Li

GROMACS is one of the most widely used HPC software packages using the Molecular Dynamics (MD) simulation technique. In this work, we quantify GROMACS parallel performance using different configurations, HPC systems, and FFT libraries…

Computational Physics · Physics 2023-08-02 Måns I. Andersson , N. Arul Murugan , Artur Podobas , Stefano Markidis

For many years, systems running Nvidia-based GPU architectures have dominated the heterogeneous supercomputer landscape. However, recently GPU chipsets manufactured by Intel and AMD have cut into this market and can now be found in some of…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-06-18 L. Apanasevich , Yogesh Kale , Himanshu Sharma , Ana Marija Sokovic

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

Commercial graphics processors (GPUs) have high compute capacity at very low cost, which makes them attractive for general purpose scientific computing. In this paper we show how graphics processors can be used for N-body simulations to…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2007-06-22 Erich Elsen , V. Vishal , Mike Houston , Vijay Pande , Pat Hanrahan , Eric Darve

Design considerations for molecular dynamics algorithms capable of taking advantage of the computational power of a graphics processing unit (GPU) are described. Accommodating the constraints of scalable streaming-multiprocessor hardware…

Computational Physics · Physics 2011-01-27 D. C. Rapaport

Hybrid computational architectures based on the joint power of Central Processing Units and Graphic Processing Units (GPUs) are becoming popular and powerful hardware tools for a wide range of simulations in biology, chemistry, engineering,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Roberto Capuzzo-Dolcetta , Mario Spera

With the advent of high-performance computing techniques, the data for analysis has grown significantly. Here, graphic processing unit (GPU) based program kernels are discussed to exploit parallelism in the analysis codes specific to…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-11-07 Gourav Shrivastav , Manish Agarwal

RUMD is a general purpose, high-performance molecular dynamics (MD) simulation package running on graphical processing units (GPU's). RUMD addresses the challenge of utilizing the many-core nature of modern GPU hardware when simulating…

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