Re: [AMBER] Regular Ewald calculations on GPU

From: David A Case <david.case.rutgers.edu>
Date: Fri, 7 Jun 2019 14:19:45 -0400

On Fri, Jun 07, 2019, Nikolay N. Kuzmich wrote:
>
>I am just curious if you have plans to implement direct Ewald calculations
>(ew_type=1)
>in pmemd.cuda in the near future. As follows from the manual, right now it
>is available only in sander.

There are no such plans at present. Direct (or "regular") Ewald is
slowwwww (except for systems with only a small number of atoms), so any
speed advantages that pmemd has over sander would be lost.

Is there a use case for having Ewald calculations in pmemd?

...dac


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