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ArticleIBM journal of research and development

Scalable Molecular Dynamics with NAMD on the Summit System.

B Acun, D J Hardy, L V Kale, K Li, J C Phillips, J E Stone

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6 authors.

B AcunIBM Research Division, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY, 10598, USA (Bilge.Acun2@ibm.com).
D J HardyTheoretical and Computational Biophysics Group, Beckman Institute, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801, USA (dhardy@ks.uiuc.edu).
L V KaleDepartment of Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801, USA (kale@illinois.edu).
K LiNvidia Corporation, Santa Clara, CA 95051, USA (kel@nvidia.com).
J C PhillipsNCSA Blue Waters Project Office, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana IL 61801, USA (jcphill@illinois.edu).
J E StoneTheoretical and Computational Biophysics Group, Beckman Institute, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801, USA (johns@ks.uiuc.edu).

Funding

WHOLE CELL SIMULATIONP41GM104601 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA-CHAMPAIGN · PI TAJKHORSHID, EMAD · 2012 to 2021
$19.0M
NIGMS NIH HHS P41 GM104601
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

NAMD (NAnoscale Molecular Dynamics) is a parallel molecular dynamics application that has been used to make breakthroughs in understanding the structure and dynamics of large biomolecular complexes, such as viruses like HIV and various types of influenza. State-of-the-art biomolecular simulations often require integration of billions of timesteps, computing all interatomic forces for each femtosecond timestep. Molecular dynamics simulation of large biomolecular systems and long-timescale biological phenomena requires tremendous computing power. NAMD harnesses the power of thousands of heterogeneous processors to meet this demand. In this paper, we present algorithm improvements and performance optimizations that enable NAMD to achieve high performance on the IBM Newell platform (with POWER9 processors and NVIDIA Volta V100 GPUs) which underpins the Oak Ridge National Laboratory's Summit and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory's Sierra supercomputers. The Top-500 supercomputers June 2018 list shows Summit at the number one spot with 187 Petaflop/s peak performance and Sierra third with 119 Petaflop/s. Optimizations for NAMD on Summit include: data layout changes for GPU acceleration and CPU vectorization, improving GPU offload efficiency, increasing performance with PAMI support in Charm++, improving efficiency of FFT calculations, improving load balancing, enabling better CPU vectorization and cache performance, and providing an alternative thermostat through stochastic velocity rescaling. We also present performance scaling results on early Newell systems.

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PMID32154805
PMCPMC7059615

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