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Leighton Wilson1, Weihua Geng2, Robert Krasny3
1Cerebras Systems, Sunnyvale, California 94085, United States.
Abstract:
This work describes TABI-PB 2.0, an improved version of the treecode-accelerated boundary integral Poisson-Boltzmann solver. The code computes the electrostatic potential on the molecular surface of a solvated biomolecule, and further processing yields the electrostatic solvation energy. The new implementation utilizes the NanoShaper surface triangulation code, node-patch boundary integral discretization, a block preconditioner, and a fast multipole method based on barycentric Lagrange interpolation and dual tree traversal. Performance-critical portions of the code were implemented on a GPU. Numerical results for protein 1A63 and two viral capsids (Zika, H1N1) demonstrate the code's accuracy and efficiency.
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