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To design and implement a heterogeneous CPU and GPU parallelization architecture in the GROMACS molecular dynamics engine to achieve substantial simulation speedups.

October 5, 2020The Journal of Chemical PhysicsOpen Access

Heterogeneous parallelization and acceleration of molecular dynamics simulations in GROMACS

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Computational framework development demonstrates order-of-magnitude acceleration in molecular dynamics simulations, highlighting effective heterogeneous CPU-GPU load balancing and scaling.

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To design and implement a heterogeneous CPU and GPU parallelization architecture in the GROMACS molecular dynamics engine to achieve substantial simulation speedups.
Redesigned core algorithms, including Verlet lists, pair searching, and cutoff schemes, to exploit SIMD and GPU hardware capabilities.
Developed a cluster-based approach to non-bonded pair interactions with dynamic load-balancing between CPU cores and GPU accelerators.
Integrated dual pair lists with rolling pruning updates along with direct GPU-to-GPU communication protocols.
Achieved an order-of-magnitude performance improvement on commodity accelerator hardware compared to traditional CPU implementations.
Demonstrated strong scaling and high work efficiency extending from single-GPU configurations to multi-GPU and multi-node clusters.

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A 2020 study studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a7deb49f980e83641188201 https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0018516

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Computational framework development demonstrates order-of-magnitude acceleration in molecular dynamics simulations, highlighting effective heterogeneous CPU-GPU load balancing and scaling.

Heterogeneous parallelization and acceleration of molecular dynamics simulations in GROMACS

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Heterogeneous parallelization and acceleration of molecular dynamics simulations in GROMACS

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