> The slow part of the calculation is calculating the forces. Compared to
> that, the cost of integrating positions and velocities is nearly
> negligible. So the question here is "is there any way to efficiently
> calculate only the forces on the atoms you wish to propagate"?
>
> Unfortunately the answer to that is "no", especially with GB. The
> long-range effect of the nonbonded interactions means you need to compute
> the interactions between all atoms you wish to study (near the active site)
> with all other atoms in the system. And you also can't restrict the
> nonbonded calculation between only the (very small number of) pairs in
> which one atom is one of the "atoms of interest", because the GB potential
> is not pairwise decomposable.
>
>
Which means in simple words that not calculating forces between _fixed
atoms only_ in a GP simulation is wrong?
> What this means is that the presence (and location) of atom A can influence
> the interaction between atoms B and C (it does this through A's effect on
> the Born radii of both atom B and C). Which means that regardless of which
> atoms you want to integrate, you effectively need to do the whole force
> calculation...
>
> Moral of the story: If you want to speed up your calculation, run on GPUs.
>
> HTH,
> Jason
>
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