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Density functionals at the level of the Generalized Gradient Approximation (GGA) and a plane-wave basis set are widely used today to perform ab initio molecular dynamics (AIMD) simulations. Going up in the ladder of accuracy of density…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-10-18 Sagarmoy Mandal , Ritama Kar , Tobias Kloeffel , Bernd Meyer , Nisanth N. Nair

Molecular dynamics (MD) simulation is one of the past decade's most important tools for enabling biology scientists and researchers to explore human health and diseases. However, due to the computation complexity of the MD algorithm, it…

Computational Physics · Physics 2016-11-15 Jason Cong , Zhenman Fang , Hassan Kianinejad , Peng Wei

Understanding the complex behavior of molecular systems is fundamental to fields such as physics, materials science, and biology. Molecular dynamics (MD) simulations are crucial tools for studying atomic-level dynamics. This work focuses on…

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State-of-the-art AI deep potentials provide ab initio-quality results, but at a fraction of the computational cost of first-principles quantum mechanical calculations, such as density functional theory. In this work, we bring AI deep…

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The high-performance computing (HPC) community has recently seen a substantial diversification of hardware platforms and their associated programming models. From traditional multicore processors to highly specialized accelerators, vendors…

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Parallel computing is a standard approach to achieving high-performance computing (HPC). Three commonly used methods to implement parallel computing include: 1) applying multithreading technology on single-core or multi-core CPUs; 2)…

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High-performance computing (HPC) is reshaping computational drug discovery by enabling large-scale, time-efficient molecular simulations. In this work, we explore HPC-driven pipelines for Alzheimer's disease drug discovery, focusing on…

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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

Since numerical computing with MATLAB offers a wide variety of advantages, such as easier developing and debugging of computational codes rather than lower-level languages, the popularity of this tool is significantly increased in the past…

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Different parallel frameworks for implementing data analysis applications have been proposed by the HPC and Big Data communities. In this paper, we investigate three task-parallel frameworks: Spark, Dask and RADICAL-Pilot with respect to…

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This paper discusses the challenges encountered when analyzing the energy efficiency of synthetic benchmarks and the Gromacs package on the Fritz and Alex HPC clusters. Experiments were conducted using MPI parallelism on full sockets of…

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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,…

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The structural dynamics of biological macromolecules, such as proteins, DNA/RNA, or their complexes, are strongly influenced by protonation changes of their typically many titratable groups, which explains their pH sensitivity. In turn,…

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In this paper, we explore how numerical calculations can be accelerated by implementing several numerical methods of fractional-order systems using parallel computing techniques. We investigate the feasibility of parallel computing…

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With an integrated software package {\tt GRACE}, it is possible to generate Feynman diagrams, calculate the total cross section and generate physics events automatically. We outline the hybrid method of parallel computation of the…

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Computational Physics · Physics 2021-04-07 Martin Reinhardt , Helmut Grubmüller

The implementation of Molecular Dynamics (MD) on FPGAs has received substantial attention. Previous work, however, has consisted of either proof-of-concept implementations of components, usually the range-limited force; full systems, but…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-05-15 Chen Yang , Tong Geng , Tianqi Wang , Rushi Patel , Qingqing Xiong , Ahmed Sanaullah , Jiayi Sheng , Charles Lin , Vipin Sachdeva , Woody Sherman , Martin C. Herbordt

The structural dynamics of biological macromolecules, such as proteins, DNA/RNA, or complexes thereof, are strongly influenced by protonation changes of their typically many titratable groups, which explains their sensitivity to pH changes.…

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In this paper we announce the public release of a massively-parallel, GPU-accelerated software, which is the first to combine both coarse-grained molecular dynamics and field-theoretical simulations in one simulation package. MATILDA.FT…