Trillion-atom molecular dynamics simulations with ab initio accuracy

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Main Authors: Suo, Pengfei, Cao, Wudi, Wu, Xingxing, Zhang, Wenjie, Fan, Zheyong, Xian, Shuanghan, Wang, Rui, Qian, Cheng, Liang, Chao, Yuan, Qinghong, Chen, Xiaoshuang, Guan, Pengfei, Bu, Jingde, Tian, Hongzhen, Su, Yanjing, Ding, Feng, Wang, Lin-Wang
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author Suo, Pengfei
Cao, Wudi
Wu, Xingxing
Zhang, Wenjie
Fan, Zheyong
Xian, Shuanghan
Wang, Rui
Qian, Cheng
Liang, Chao
Yuan, Qinghong
Chen, Xiaoshuang
Guan, Pengfei
Bu, Jingde
Tian, Hongzhen
Su, Yanjing
Ding, Feng
Wang, Lin-Wang
author_facet Suo, Pengfei
Cao, Wudi
Wu, Xingxing
Zhang, Wenjie
Fan, Zheyong
Xian, Shuanghan
Wang, Rui
Qian, Cheng
Liang, Chao
Yuan, Qinghong
Chen, Xiaoshuang
Guan, Pengfei
Bu, Jingde
Tian, Hongzhen
Su, Yanjing
Ding, Feng
Wang, Lin-Wang
contents Material properties are fundamentally dictated by multiscale phenomena, which often reach mesoscale in size. The μm mesoscale is also the size which can be observed directly under an optical microscope, bridging the atomistic microscopic description with the continuous model macroscopic world. In this work, we report an unprecedented molecular dynamics (MD) simulation comprising 1.62 trillion atoms. Utilizing the neuroevolution potential (NEP) framework, we attained ab initio accuracy on China's New-generation Intelligent Supercomputer. Our implementation achieves a time-to-solution (s/step/atom) 100 times faster than previous state-of-the-art machine learning force field simulations, and 1,000 times faster than the Gordon Bell Prize-winning application from six years ago. Furthermore, we demonstrate an 86.9% weak scaling efficiency from a single GPGPU to 45,000 GPGPUs. These results redefine atomistic simulation boundaries, enabling direct mesoscopic modeling with quantum-level precision.
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spellingShingle Trillion-atom molecular dynamics simulations with ab initio accuracy
Suo, Pengfei
Cao, Wudi
Wu, Xingxing
Zhang, Wenjie
Fan, Zheyong
Xian, Shuanghan
Wang, Rui
Qian, Cheng
Liang, Chao
Yuan, Qinghong
Chen, Xiaoshuang
Guan, Pengfei
Bu, Jingde
Tian, Hongzhen
Su, Yanjing
Ding, Feng
Wang, Lin-Wang
Materials Science
Material properties are fundamentally dictated by multiscale phenomena, which often reach mesoscale in size. The μm mesoscale is also the size which can be observed directly under an optical microscope, bridging the atomistic microscopic description with the continuous model macroscopic world. In this work, we report an unprecedented molecular dynamics (MD) simulation comprising 1.62 trillion atoms. Utilizing the neuroevolution potential (NEP) framework, we attained ab initio accuracy on China's New-generation Intelligent Supercomputer. Our implementation achieves a time-to-solution (s/step/atom) 100 times faster than previous state-of-the-art machine learning force field simulations, and 1,000 times faster than the Gordon Bell Prize-winning application from six years ago. Furthermore, we demonstrate an 86.9% weak scaling efficiency from a single GPGPU to 45,000 GPGPUs. These results redefine atomistic simulation boundaries, enabling direct mesoscopic modeling with quantum-level precision.
title Trillion-atom molecular dynamics simulations with ab initio accuracy
topic Materials Science
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.24816