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Heterogeneous Parallelization and Acceleration of Molecular Dynamics Simulations in GROMACS

Szilárd Páll, Artem Zhmurov, Paul Bauer, Mark Abraham, Magnus Lundborg, Alan Gray, Berk Hess, Erik Lindahl
Swedish e-Science Research Center, PDC Center for High Performance Computing, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, 100 44, Stockholm, Sweden
arXiv:2006.09167 [physics.comp-ph], (16 Jun 2020)

@misc{pll2020heterogeneous,

   title={Heterogeneous Parallelization and Acceleration of Molecular Dynamics Simulations in GROMACS},

   author={Szilárd Páll and Artem Zhmurov and Paul Bauer and Mark Abraham and Magnus Lundborg and Alan Gray and Berk Hess and Erik Lindahl},

   year={2020},

   eprint={2006.09167},

   archivePrefix={arXiv},

   primaryClass={physics.comp-ph}

}

The introduction of accelerator devices such as graphics processing units (GPUs) has had profound impact on molecular dynamics simulations and has enabled order-of-magnitude performance advances using commodity hardware. To fully reap these benefits, it has been necessary to reformulate some of the most fundamental algorithms, including the Verlet list, pair searching and cut-offs. Here, we present the heterogeneous parallelization and acceleration design of molecular dynamics implemented in the GROMACS codebase over the last decade. The setup involves a general cluster-based approach to pair lists and non-bonded pair interactions that utilizes both GPUs and CPU SIMD acceleration efficiently, including the ability to load-balance tasks between CPUs and GPUs. The algorithm work efficiency is tuned for each type of hardware, and to use accelerators more efficiently we introduce dual pair lists with rolling pruning updates. Combined with new direct GPU-GPU communication as well as GPU integration, this enables excellent performance from single GPU simulations through strong scaling across multiple GPUs and efficient multi-node parallelization.
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