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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

The molecular dynamics simulation package GROMACS runs efficiently on a wide variety of hardware from commodity workstations to high performance computing clusters. Hardware features are well exploited with a combination of SIMD,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-03-14 Carsten Kutzner , Szilárd Páll , Martin Fechner , Ansgar Esztermann , Bert L. de Groot , Helmut Grubmüller

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

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 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

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

Typical biomolecular systems such as cellular membranes, DNA, and protein complexes are highly charged. Thus, efficient and accurate treatment of electrostatic interactions is of great importance in computational modelling of such systems.…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Michael Patra , Marja T. Hyvonen , Emma Falck , Mohsen Sabouri-Ghomi , Ilpo Vattulainen , Mikko Karttunen

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

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

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

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

Development of computer technology in chemistry, bring many application of chemistry. Not only the application to visualize the structure of molecule but also to molecular dynamics simulation. One of them is Gromacs. Gromacs is an example…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2009-12-07 A. D. Astuti , A. B. Mutiara

The smooth particle mesh Ewald (SPME) method is an FFT based method for the fast evaluation of electrostatic interactions under periodic boundary conditions. A highly optimized implementation of this method is available in GROMACS, a widely…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-12-14 Davood Saffar Shamshirgar , Berk Hess , Anna-Karin Tornberg

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

Static resource allocations in high-performance computing (HPC) lead to inefficiencies for time-varying workloads, causing idle resources, queue delays, and higher node-hour costs. The Dynamic Management of Resources (DMR) middleware…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Petter Sandås , Sergio Iserte , Íñigo Aréjula-Aísa , Berk Hess , Antonio J. Peña

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 (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

Neural network potentials (NNPs) are rapidly changing the landscape of state-of-the-art molecular dynamics (MD) simulations. To make full use of this development, the community needs flexible, easy-to-use interfaces firmly integrated with…

Computational Physics · Physics 2026-04-24 Lukas Müllender , Berk Hess , Erik Lindahl

In this paper, a comprehensive performance review of a MPI-based high-order spectral and mortar element method C++ toolbox is presented. The focus is put on the performance evaluation of several aspects with a particular emphasis on the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2007-09-10 Roland Bouffanais , Vincent Keller , Ralf Gruber , Michel O. Deville

The FFT of three-dimensional (3D) input data is an important computational kernel of numerical simulations and is widely used in High Performance Computing (HPC) codes running on a large number of processors. Performance of many scientific…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-08-28 Vivek Gavane , Supriya Prabhugawankar , Shivam Garg , Archana Achalere , Rajendra Joshi
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