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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…

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Modern graphics processing units (GPUs) provide impressive computing resources, which can be accessed conveniently through the CUDA programming interface. We describe how GPUs can be used to considerably speed up molecular dynamics (MD)…

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Path integral Monte Carlo (PIMC) and path integral molecular dynamics (PIMD) provide the golden standard for the ab initio simulations of identical particles. In this work, we achieved significant GPU acceleration based on PIMD, which is…

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Message-passing graph neural network interatomic potentials (GNN-IPs), particularly those with equivariant representations such as NequIP, are attracting significant attention due to their data efficiency and high accuracy. However,…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-06-13 Yutack Park , Jaesun Kim , Seungwoo Hwang , Seungwu Han

In recent years, machine learning interatomic potentials (MLIPs) have attracted significant attention as a method that enables large-scale, long-time atomistic simulations while maintaining accuracy comparable to electronic structure…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-03-27 Yuta Yoshimoto , Naoki Matsumura , Yuto Iwasaki , Hiroshi Nakao , Yasufumi Sakai

DeePMD-kit is a powerful open-source software package that facilitates molecular dynamics simulations using machine learning potentials (MLP) known as Deep Potential (DP) models. This package, which was released in 2017, has been widely…

Massively parallel computer architectures create new opportunities for the performance of long-timescale molecular dynamics (MD) simulations. Here, we introduce the path-accelerated molecular dynamics (PAMD) method that takes advantage of…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-01-11 Jorge L. Rosa-Raíces , Bin Zhang , Thomas F. Miller

This study employed an artificial intelligence-enhanced molecular simulation framework to enable efficient Path Integral Molecular Dynamics (PIMD) simulations. Owing to its modular architecture and high-throughput capabilities, the…

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Accurate and efficient simulation of infrared (IR) and Raman spectra is essential for molecular identification and structural analysis. Traditional quantum chemistry methods based on the harmonic approximation neglect anharmonicity and…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-10-07 Shengjiao Ji , Yujin Zhang , Zihan Zou , Bin Jiang , Jun Jiang , Yi Luo , Wei Hu

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

As users and developers, we are witnessing the opening of a new computing scenario: the introduction of hybrid processors into a single die, such as an accelerated processing unit (APU) processor, and the plug-and-play of additional…

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With the rapid advancement of computational techniques, Molecular Dynamics (MD) simulations have emerged as powerful tools in biomedical research, enabling in-depth investigations of biological systems at the atomic level. Among the diverse…

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We present GridFF, an efficient method for simulating molecules on rigid substrates, derived from techniques used in protein-ligand docking in biochemistry. By projecting molecule-substrate interactions onto precomputed spatial grids with…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-08-22 Indranil Mal , Milan Kočí , Paolo Nicolini , Prokop Hapala

Large-scale molecular dynamics simulations with high accuracy have been increasingly popular for their capability to bridge the gap between atomistic modeling and mesoscale phenomena. Both machine learning potentials and enhanced sampling…

Computational Physics · Physics 2026-03-24 Haoting Zhang , Qiuhan Jia , Zhennan Zhang , Yijie Zhu , Zhongwei Zhang , Junjie Wang , Jiuyang Shi , Zheyong Fan , Jian Sun

Reactive molecular dynamics simulations are computationally demanding. Reaching spatial and temporal scales where interesting scientific phenomena can be observed requires efficient and scalable implementations on modern hardware. In this…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-06-26 Hasan Metin Aktulga , Christopher Knight , Paul Coffman , Kurt A. O'Hearn , Tzu-Ray Shan , Wei Jiang

The accurate simulation of complex biochemical phenomena has historically been hampered by the computational requirements of high-fidelity molecular-modeling techniques. Quantum mechanical methods, such as ab initio wave-function (WF)…

Graphics processing units have been extensively used to accelerate classical molecular dynamics simulations. However, there is much less progress on the acceleration of force evaluations for many-body potentials compared to pairwise ones.…

Computational Physics · Physics 2017-06-27 Zheyong Fan , Wei Chen , Ville Vierimaa , Ari Harju

Machine learning interatomic potentials (MLIPs) with broad chemical flexibility are important for atomistic simulations of compositionally complex materials such as high-entropy alloys. Here, we study two state-of-the-art MLIP frameworks,…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-04-06 Fei Shuang , Penghua Ying , Kai Liu , Zixiong Wei , Fengxian Liu , Zheyong Fan , Minqiang Jiang , Poulumi Dey

We discuss the computational bottlenecks in molecular dynamics (MD) and describe the challenges in parallelizing the computation intensive tasks. We present a hybrid algorithm using MPI (Message Passing Interface) with OpenMP threads for…

Computational Physics · Physics 2015-07-28 Anirban Pal , Abhishek Agarwala , Soumyendu Raha , Baidurya Bhattacharya

Simulating large molecular systems over long timescales requires force fields that are both accurate and efficient. In recent years, E(3) equivariant neural networks have lifted the tension between computational efficiency and accuracy of…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-05-22 Leif Seute , Eric Hartmann , Jan Stühmer , Frauke Gräter