HALMD is a high-precision molecular dynamics package for the large-scale simulation of simple and complex liquids. HALMD supports acceleration through CUDA-enabled graphics processors. HALMD lays emphasis on long-time numerical stability by using double-single precision arithmetic for numerically crucial parts of the MD integration step. HALMD is freely available and licensed under the GPL.
HALMD is written and developed by Peter Colberg and Felix Höfling.
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A description of the implementation, performance tests, numerical stability tests and an application to the glass transition of the Kob-Andersen mixture is found in the article by Peter H. Colberg and Felix Höfling, Highly accelerated simulations of glassy dynamics using GPUs: Caveats on limited floating-point precision, Comp. Phys. Comm. 182, 1120 (2011) [arXiv:0912.3824].
The name HALMD was chosen in honour of the machine HAL at the Arnold Sommerfeld Center for Theoretical Physics of the Ludwigs-Maximilians-Universität München. HAL has been the project’s first GPGPU machine, equipped initially with two NVIDIA GeForce 8800 Ultra. HAL survived a critical air condition failure and to this day houses two NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280.
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