Coarse grain (CG) molecular models have been proposed to simulate complex sys- tems with lower computational overheads and longer timescales with respect to atom- istic level models. However, their acceleration on parallel architectures such as Graphic Processing Units (GPU) presents original challenges that must be carefully evaluated. The objective of this work is to characterize the impact of CG model features on parallel simulation performance. To achieve this, we implemented a GPU-accelerated version of a CG molecular dynamics simulator, to which we applied specic optimizations for CG models, such as dedicated data structures to handle dierent bead type interac- tions, obtaining a maximum speed-up of 14 on the NVIDIA GTX480 GPU with Fermi architecture. We provide a complete characterization and evaluation of algorithmic and simulated system features of CG models impacting the achievable speed-up and accuracy of results, using three dierent GPU architectures as case studies.
Acceleration of Coarse Grain Molecular Dynamics on GPU Architectures / Shkurti, Ardita; Mario, Orsi; Macii, Enrico; Ficarra, Elisa; Acquaviva, Andrea. - In: JOURNAL OF COMPUTATIONAL CHEMISTRY. - ISSN 0192-8651. - 34:10(2013), pp. 803-818. [10.1002/jcc.23183]
Data di pubblicazione: | 2013 | |
Titolo: | Acceleration of Coarse Grain Molecular Dynamics on GPU Architectures | |
Autore/i: | Shkurti, Ardita; Mario, Orsi; Macii, Enrico; Ficarra, Elisa; Acquaviva, Andrea | |
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Digital Object Identifier (DOI): | http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/jcc.23183 | |
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Volume: | 34 | |
Fascicolo: | 10 | |
Pagina iniziale: | 803 | |
Pagina finale: | 818 | |
Codice identificativo ISI: | WOS:000316328600001 | |
Codice identificativo Scopus: | 2-s2.0-84875209953 | |
Codice identificativo Pubmed: | 23280763 | |
Citazione: | Acceleration of Coarse Grain Molecular Dynamics on GPU Architectures / Shkurti, Ardita; Mario, Orsi; Macii, Enrico; Ficarra, Elisa; Acquaviva, Andrea. - In: JOURNAL OF COMPUTATIONAL CHEMISTRY. - ISSN 0192-8651. - 34:10(2013), pp. 803-818. [10.1002/jcc.23183] | |
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