GROMACS: High performance molecular simulations through multi-level parallelism from laptops to supercomputers
Author(s) -
M Abraham,
Teemu J. Murtola,
Roland Schulz,
Szilárd Páll,
Jeremy C. Smith,
Berk Hess,
Erik Lindahl
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
softwarex
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.528
H-Index - 21
ISSN - 2352-7110
DOI - 10.1016/j.softx.2015.06.001
Subject(s) - computer science , parallelism (grammar) , parallel computing , data parallelism , supercomputer , computer architecture , computational science
GROMACS is one of the most widely used open-source and free software codes in chemistry, used primarily for dynamical simulations of biomolecules. It provides a rich set of calculation types, preparation and analysis tools. Several advanced techniques for free-energy calculations are supported. In version 5, it reaches new performance heights, through several new and enhanced parallelization algorithms. These work on every level; SIMD registers inside cores, multithreading, heterogeneous CPU–GPU acceleration, state-of-the-art 3D domain decomposition, and ensemble-level parallelization through built-in replica exchange and the separate Copernicus framework. The latest best-in-class compressed trajectory storage format is supported
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