We present the extension
of the Tinker-HP package (
Lagardère
Lagardère
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) to the
use of Graphics Processing Unit (GPU)
cards to accelerate molecular dynamics simulations using polarizable
many-body force fields. The new high-performance module allows for
an efficient use of single- and multiple-GPU architectures ranging
from research laboratories to modern supercomputer centers. After
detailing an analysis of our general scalable strategy that relies
on O
pen
ACC and CUDA, we discuss the various capabilities
of the package. Among them, the multiprecision possibilities of the
code are discussed. If an efficient double precision implementation
is provided to preserve the possibility of fast reference computations,
we show that a lower precision arithmetic is preferred providing a
similar accuracy for molecular dynamics while exhibiting superior
performances. As Tinker-HP is mainly dedicated to accelerate simulations
using new generation point dipole polarizable force field, we focus
our study on the implementation of the AMOEBA model. Testing various
NVIDIA platforms including 2080Ti, 3090, V100, and A100 cards, we
provide illustrative benchmarks of the code for single- and multicards
simulations on large biosystems encompassing up to millions of atoms.
The new code strongly reduces time to solution and offers the best
performances to date obtained using the AMOEBA polarizable force field.
Perspectives toward the strong-scaling performance of our multinode
massive parallelization strategy, unsupervised adaptive sampling and
large scale applicability of the Tinker-HP code in biophysics are
discussed. The present software has been released in phase advance
on GitHub in link with the High Performance Computing community COVID-19
research efforts and is free for Academics (see
).
We provide an unsupervised adaptive sampling strategy capable of producing μs-timescale molecular dynamics (MD) simulations of large biosystems using many-body polarizable force fields (PFF). The global exploration problem is decomposed...
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