LAMMPS-KOKKOS: Performance Portable Molecular Dynamics Across Exascale Architectures

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Autori principali: Johansson, Anders, Weinberg, Evan, Trott, Christian R., McCarthy, Megan J., Moore, Stan G.
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author Johansson, Anders
Weinberg, Evan
Trott, Christian R.
McCarthy, Megan J.
Moore, Stan G.
author_facet Johansson, Anders
Weinberg, Evan
Trott, Christian R.
McCarthy, Megan J.
Moore, Stan G.
contents Since its inception in 1995, LAMMPS has grown to be a world-class molecular dynamics code, with thousands of users, over one million lines of code, and multi-scale simulation capabilities. We discuss how LAMMPS has adapted to the modern heterogeneous computing landscape by integrating the Kokkos performance portability library into the existing C++ code. We investigate performance portability of simple pairwise, many-body reactive, and machine-learned force-field interatomic potentials. We present results on GPUs across different vendors and generations, and analyze performance trends, probing FLOPS throughput, memory bandwidths, cache capabilities, and thread-atomic operation performance. Finally, we demonstrate strong scaling on three exascale machines -- OLCF Frontier, ALCF Aurora, and NNSA El Capitan -- as well as on the CSCS Alps supercomputer, for the three potentials.
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spellingShingle LAMMPS-KOKKOS: Performance Portable Molecular Dynamics Across Exascale Architectures
Johansson, Anders
Weinberg, Evan
Trott, Christian R.
McCarthy, Megan J.
Moore, Stan G.
Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing
Performance
Computational Physics
C.1.4; C.2.4; C.4; D.1.3; D.3.4; E.1; I.6; I.6.8; J.2
Since its inception in 1995, LAMMPS has grown to be a world-class molecular dynamics code, with thousands of users, over one million lines of code, and multi-scale simulation capabilities. We discuss how LAMMPS has adapted to the modern heterogeneous computing landscape by integrating the Kokkos performance portability library into the existing C++ code. We investigate performance portability of simple pairwise, many-body reactive, and machine-learned force-field interatomic potentials. We present results on GPUs across different vendors and generations, and analyze performance trends, probing FLOPS throughput, memory bandwidths, cache capabilities, and thread-atomic operation performance. Finally, we demonstrate strong scaling on three exascale machines -- OLCF Frontier, ALCF Aurora, and NNSA El Capitan -- as well as on the CSCS Alps supercomputer, for the three potentials.
title LAMMPS-KOKKOS: Performance Portable Molecular Dynamics Across Exascale Architectures
topic Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing
Performance
Computational Physics
C.1.4; C.2.4; C.4; D.1.3; D.3.4; E.1; I.6; I.6.8; J.2
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.13523