[gmx-developers] free energies on GPUs?

[Berk Hess]

That depends on what you mean with this.
With free-energy all non-perturbed non-bonded interactions can run on 
the GPU. The perturbed ones currently can not. For a large system with a 
few perturbed atoms this is no issue. For smaller systems the 
free-energy kernel can be the limiting factor. I think there is a lot of 
gain to be had in making the extremely complex CPU free-energy kernel 
faster. Initially I thought SIMD would not help there. But since any 
perturbed i-particle will have perturbed interactions with all j's, this 
will help a lot.

Cheers,

Berk

On 2017-02-13 01:08, Michael R Shirts wrote:
> What’s the current state of free energy code on GPU’s, and what are the roadblocks?
>
> Thanks!
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