GROMACS: High performance molecular simulations through multi-level parallelism from laptops to supercomputers
Theoretical Biophysics, Science for Life Laboratory, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, 17121 Solna, Sweden
SoftwareX, 2015
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.
July 20, 2015 by hgpu