[gmx-developers] Prospective research areas of GROMACS

[David van der Spoel]

On 21/09/15 19:52, Sabyasachi Sahoo wrote:
> Dear Gromacs developers,
>
> I am a parallel programming researcher and would like to contribute to
> Gromacs molecular dynamics software by helping to nail down any
> bottlenecks that occur in scaling of the software on multiple CPUs (and
> probably improved performance in exa-scale era.) I am already in process
> of collecting profiling results to identify the phases that can be
> improved (and also for few other MD softwares).
>
> Hence, I would request all of you to please suggest me some possible
> areas of research, on which we can work on, for better scaling of
> Gromacs, (and/or MD softwares in general.) Going through the official
> website documentation helps me realise that implementing a truly
> parallel FFT (or making it scale better) in Gromacs will be truly
> helpful. The latest paper on Gromacs 5.0 concludes saying an algorithm
> implementing preempting fine grained tasks based on priority can lead to
> improvements. I am also trying to look into it and would want to know
> your take on this.
>
> You could also direct me to the link on the website, or any person
> concerned with this. You could also point me to any link in developer
> zone that I might have missed. Any more insight into matter will be
> really appreciated.
>

Have you looked at the source code so far? It can be a tad overwhelming 
although we're working on restructuring.

You can follow the work in progress on our patch server:
https://gerrit.gromacs.org/#/q/status:open


> Thanks in advance.
>
> --
> Yours sincerely,
> Sabyasachi Sahoo
> Supercomputer Education & Research Center
> Indian Institute of Science - Bangalore
>
>


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