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Area of Science:

  • Computational Chemistry
  • Materials Science
  • High-Performance Computing

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  • First-Principles Molecular Dynamics (FPMD) is crucial for atomistic simulations.
  • Efficient GPU implementations are needed to handle large-scale FPMD.
  • Optimizing data transfer and memory bandwidth is key for GPU acceleration.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To develop and present a single-Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) implementation of FPMD.
  • To optimize the implementation for NVIDIA CUDA platforms, focusing on memory bandwidth and data transfer.
  • To demonstrate the application and performance of the FPMD implementation on advanced GPU architectures.

Main Methods:

  • Developed a single-GPU FPMD code using plane wave basis sets and pseudopotentials on the NVIDIA CUDA platform.
  • Implemented design strategies to maximize GPU memory bandwidth utilization and minimize host-device data transfers.
  • Tested the implementation on NVIDIA A100 and Grace-Hopper GH200 GPUs for various material systems.

Main Results:

  • Achieved significant speedups compared to existing GPU-enhanced FPMD implementations.
  • Successfully simulated systems with up to 512 atoms and 4096 electrons.
  • Demonstrated applications in superionic NH3, liquid water, SiC/MgO defects, free energy barriers, and residual stress.

Conclusions:

  • The presented single-GPU FPMD implementation offers substantial performance gains.
  • Efficient use of computational resources is enabled for complex molecular dynamics simulations.
  • The optimized code facilitates advanced FPMD applications, including ensemble simulations.