[gmx-users] Using GPU to do simulations

Justin Lemkul jalemkul at vt.edu
Thu Apr 17 20:50:59 CEST 2014



On 4/17/14, 2:45 PM, mircial at sjtu.edu.cn wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I am trying to do some pulling simulations by gromacs (i.e., pull a ligand
> from its binding site), as the system is large I want to accelerate the
> simulations by GPU. I want to confirm that, Does GPU simulation support the
> pulling code of GROMACS? Can I use GPU acceleration to do simulations in
> which a ligand is pulled out of its binding site? I am asking this, as I see
> from the website that the pulling code is not supported by GPU (Supported
> Features Section of
> http://www.gromacs.org/Documentation/Installation_Instructions_4.5/GROMACS-OpenMM#Compiling_and_installation_of_GROMACS-GPU_from_source).
>

This page was obsolete years ago when version 4.6 introduced native GPU support. 
  AFAIK the pull code should work.  If it doesn't, mdrun will complain loudly 
and you'll have your answer in seconds!

-Justin

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