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Molecular Dynamics (MD) simulation is a powerful tool for understanding the dynamics and structure of matter. Since the resolution of MD is atomic-scale, achieving long time-scale simulations with femtosecond integration is very expensive.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-27 Zijie Li , Kazem Meidani , Prakarsh Yadav , Amir Barati Farimani

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

Machine-learned interatomic potentials have revolutionized molecular dynamics simulations by providing quantum-mechanical accuracy at empirical-potential speeds. The graphics processing unit molecular dynamics (GPUMD) package, featuring the…

Large-scale atomistic simulations are essential to bridge computational materials and chemistry to realistic materials and drug discovery applications. In the past few years, rapid developments of machine learning interatomic potentials…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Kevin Han , Bowen Deng , Amir Barati Farimani , Gerbrand Ceder

We push the boundaries of electronic structure-based \textit{ab-initio} molecular dynamics (AIMD) beyond 100 million atoms. This scale is otherwise barely reachable with classical force-field methods or novel neural network and machine…

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

We describe a highly optimized implementation of MPI domain decomposition in a GPU-enabled, general-purpose molecular dynamics code, HOOMD-blue (Anderson and Glotzer, arXiv:1308.5587). Our approach is inspired by a traditional CPU-based…

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…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Mahesh Doijade , Andrey Alekseenko , Ania Brown , Alan Gray , Szilárd Páll

Molecular dynamics (MD) simulations have transformed our understanding of the nanoscale, driving breakthroughs in materials science, computational chemistry, and several other fields, including biophysics and drug design. Even on exascale…

Physical phenomena such as chemical reactions, bond breaking, and phase transition require molecular dynamics (MD) simulation with ab initio accuracy ranging from milliseconds to microseconds. However, previous state-of-the-art neural…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Jianxiong Li , Boyang Li , Zhuoqiang Guo , Mingzhen Li , Enji Li , Lijun Liu , Guojun Yuan , Zhan Wang , Guangming Tan , Weile Jia

The high arithmetic performance and intrinsic parallelism of recent graphical processing units (GPUs) can offer a technological edge for molecular dynamics simulations. ACEMD is a production-class bio-molecular dynamics (MD) simulation…

Computational Physics · Physics 2009-02-06 M. J. Harvey , G. Giupponi , G. De Fabritiis

This paper introduces a random-batch molecular dynamics (RBMD) package for fast simulations of particle systems at the nano/micro scale. Different from existing packages, the RBMD uses random batch methods for nonbonded interactions of…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-11-11 Weihang Gao , Teng Zhao , Yongfa Guo , Jiuyang Liang , Huan Liu , Maoying Luo , Zedong Luo , Wei Qin , Yichao Wang , Qi Zhou , Shi Jin , Zhenli Xu

The two main thrusts of computational science are more accurate predictions and faster calculations; to this end, the zeitgeist in molecular dynamics (MD) simulations is pursuing machine learned and data driven interatomic models, e.g.…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-02-24 Saaketh Desai , Samuel Temple Reeve , James F. Belak

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,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-03-06 Bartosz Kohnke , Eliane Briand , Carsten Kutzner , Helmut Grubmüller

The core of molecular dynamics simulation fundamentally lies in the interatomic potential. Traditional empirical potentials lack accuracy, while first-principles methods are computationally prohibitive. Machine learning interatomic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Shuyu Bi , Zhede Zhao , Qiangchao Sun , Tao Hu , Xionggang Lu , Hongwei Cheng

Molecular dynamics simulations have emerged as a potent tool for investigating the physical properties and kinetic behaviors of materials at the atomic scale, particularly in extreme conditions. Ab initio accuracy is now achievable with…

Simulations of biological macromolecules play an important role in understanding the physical basis of a number of complex processes such as protein folding. Even with increasing computational power and evolution of specialized…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-09-18 Hyungro Lee , Heng Ma , Matteo Turilli , Debsindhu Bhowmik , Shantenu Jha , Arvind Ramanathan

We present our latest advancements of machine-learned potentials (MLPs) based on the neuroevolution potential (NEP) framework introduced in [Fan et al., Phys. Rev. B 104, 104309 (2021)] and their implementation in the open-source package…

Molecular dynamics simulations can generate atomically detailed trajectories of complex systems, but analyzing these dynamics can be challenging when systems lack well-established quantitative descriptors (features). Graph neural networks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Zihan Pengmei , Spencer C. Guo , Chatipat Lorpaiboon , Aaron R. Dinner

Molecular dynamics (MD) simulation predicts the trajectory of atoms by solving Newton's equation of motion with a numeric integrator. Due to physical constraints, the time step of the integrator need to be small to maintain sufficient…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-12-22 Tianze Zheng , Weihao Gao , Chong Wang