Molecular Simulation at MCSR Brian W. Hopkins Mississippi Center for Supercomputing Research 9 October 2008
What We’re Doing Here Talk about molecular simulation procedures. Talk about available simulation programs. Discuss user simulation needs and program options.
Simulation: Anatomy of A Program Read in sim paramters, atomic coordinates and topology. Begin Timestepping –Apply periodic boundary conditions. –Build neighbor list. –Compute bonded forces. –Compute short-rang nonbonded forces. –Compute electrostatic forces. –Integrate forward in time. Write atomic positions, velocities and forces. Take data for statistical accumulators. –Repeat. End timestepping. Print restart data.
Program Anatomy: Read Control nafion #restart temperature steps timestep ps ensemble nve evbconv 1e-6 movlp 1 cutoff 10.0 angstrom rvdw 9.0 angstrom delr 0.00 angstrom
Program Anatomy: Read Config hcl in water …… OW E E E E E E E E E+03 HW E E E E E E E E E+03 HW E E E E E E E E E+02 …
Program Anatomy: Read Topology UNITS kcal MOLECULAR TYPES 4 FLEXIBLE-TIP3P-Water NUMMOLS 332 atoms 3 OW HW BONDS 2 harm harm ANGLES 1 harm FINISH …… vdw 9 OW OW lj OT OW lj HT OW lj
Program Anatomy: Set up Cell