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Porting Adaptive Ensemble Molecular Dynamics Workflows to the Summit Supercomputer

  • John Ossyra
  • Ada SedovaEmail author
  • Arnold Tharrington
  • Frank Noé
  • Cecilia Clementi
  • Jeremy C. Smith
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Part of the Lecture Notes in Computer Science book series (LNCS, volume 11887)

Abstract

Molecular dynamics (MD) simulations must take very small (femtosecond) integration steps in simulation-time to avoid numerical errors. Efficient use of parallel programming models and accelerators in state-of-the art MD programs now is pushing Moore’s limit for time-per-MD step. As a result, directly simulating timescales beyond milliseconds will not be attainable directly, even at exascale. However, concepts from statistical physics can be used to combine many parallel simulations to provide information about longer timescales and to adequately sample the simulation space, while preserving details about the dynamics of the system. Implementing such an approach requires a workflow program that allows adaptable steering of task assignments based on extensive statistical analysis of intermediate results. Here we report the implementation of such an adaptable workflow program to drive simulations on the Summit IBM Power System AC922, a pre-exascale supercomputer at the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility (OLCF). We compare to experiences on Titan, Summit’s predecessor, report the performance of the workflow and its components, and describe the porting process. We find that using a workflow program managed by a Mongo database can provide the fault tolerance, scalable performance, task dispatch rate, and reconfigurability required for robust and portable implementation of ensemble simulations such as are used in enhanced-sampling molecular dynamics. This type of workflow generator can also be used to provide adaptive steering of ensemble simulations for other applications in addition to MD.

Keywords

High Performance Computing Molecular dynamics Scientific workflows Adaptive sampling 
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Notes

Acknowledgements

The authors would like to acknowledge Micholas Dean Smith for help with MD test systems preparation, and Shantenu Jha and lab for extensive help with incorporation of the Radical Cybertools software stack. An award of computer time was provided by the Innovative and Novel Computational Impact on Theory and Experiment (INCITE) program. This research used resources of the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility, which is a DOE Office of Science User Facility supported under Contract DE-AC05-00OR227525. ORNL is managed by UT-Battelle, LLC for the US Department of Energy. FN acknowledges European Commission (ERC CoG 772230) and Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (NO 825/3-1). JCS acknowledges DOE contract ERKP752. CC acknowledges support from the National Science Foundation (CHE-1265929, CHE-1740990, CHE-1900374, and PHY-1427654) and the Welch Foundation (C-1570).

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Authors and Affiliations

  1. 1.University of TennesseeKnoxvilleUSA
  2. 2.Oak Ridge National LaboratoryOak RidgeUSA
  3. 3.Freie Universität BerlinBerlinGermany
  4. 4.Rice UniversityHoustonUSA
  5. 5.Oak Ridge National Laboratory, University of TennesseeOak RidgeUSA

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