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ArticleJournal of computational chemistry2025

Parallelization of Particle-Based Reaction-Diffusion Simulations Using MPI.

Sikao Guo, Nenad Korolija, Kent Milfeld, Adip Jhaveri, Mankun Sang, Yue Moon Ying, Margaret E Johnson

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Article in Journal of computational chemistry, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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Sikao GuoTC Jenkins Department of Biophysics, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7680-8060
Nenad KorolijaUniversity of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2224-8157
Kent MilfeldTexas Advanced Computing Center, Austin, Texas, USA.
Adip JhaveriTC Jenkins Department of Biophysics, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
Mankun SangTC Jenkins Department of Biophysics, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
Yue Moon YingTC Jenkins Department of Biophysics, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
Margaret E JohnsonTC Jenkins Department of Biophysics, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9881-291X

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Chromatin Function During Transcription and DNA Repair at Single Molecule Resolutionin Living CellsU01DK127432 · NIDDK · JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY · PI HA, TAEKJIP, JOHNSON, MARGARET ELLEN · 2020 to 2024
$3.5M
Mechanisms of Protein Self-Assembly Coupled to Membrane Mechanics in the Cell.R35GM133644 · NIGMS · JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY · PI JOHNSON, MARGARET ELLEN · 2019 to 2023
$2.0M
NIDDK NIH HHS U01 DK127432NIGMS NIH HHS R35 GM133644NIH HHS R35GM133644
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Abstract

Particle-based reaction-diffusion offers a high-resolution alternative to the continuum reaction-diffusion approach, capturing the volume-excluding nature of molecules undergoing stochastic dynamics. This is essential for simulating self-assembly into higher-order structures like filaments, lattices, or macromolecular complexes. Applications of self-assembly are ubiquitous in chemistry, biology, and materials science, but these higher-resolution methods increase computational cost. Here, we present a parallel implementation of the particle-based NERDSS software using the message passing interface (MPI), achieving close to linear scaling for up to 96 processors. By using a spatial decomposition of the system across processors, our approach extends to very large simulation volumes. The scalability of parallel NERDSS is evaluated for reversible reactions and several examples of higher-order self-assembly in 3D and 2D, with all test cases producing accurate solutions. Parallel efficiency depends on the system size, timescales, and reaction network, showing optimal scaling for smaller assemblies with slower timescales. We provide parallel NERDSS code open-source, supporting development and extension to other particle-based reaction-diffusion software.

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