Journal
JOURNAL OF COMPUTATIONAL CHEMISTRY
Volume 38, Issue 14, Pages 1071-1083Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/jcc.24786
Keywords
graphics processing unit; noncovalent interactions; high performance computing; CUDA; electron density; NCI
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- French foundation of Technological Research [CIFRE1782015]
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The NCI approach is a modern tool to reveal chemical noncovalent interactions. It is particularly attractive to describe ligand-protein binding. A custom implementation for NCI using promolecular density is presented. It is designed to leverage the computational power of NVIDIA graphics processing unit (GPU) accelerators through the CUDA programming model. The code performances of three versions are examined on a test set of 144 systems. NCI calculations are particularly well suited to the GPU architecture, which reduces drastically the computational time. On a single compute node, the dual-GPU version leads to a 39-fold improvement for the biggest instance compared to the optimal OpenMP parallel run (C code, icc compiler) with 16 CPU cores. Energy consumption measurements carried out on both CPU and GPU NCI tests show that the GPU approach provides substantial energy savings. (c) 2017 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
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