Molecular Dynamics Simulations Accelerated by GPU for Biological Macromolecules with a Non-Ewald Scheme for Electrostatic Interactions

A molecular dynamics (MD) simulation program for biological macromolecules was implemented with a non-Ewald scheme for long-ranged electrostatic interactions and run on a general purpose graphics processing unit (GPU). We recently developed several non-Ewald methods to compute the electrostatic energies with high precision. In particular, the zero-dipole summation (ZD) method, which takes into account the neutralities of charges and dipoles in a truncated subset, enables the calculation of electrostatic interactions with high accuracy and low computational cost, and its algorithm is simple enough to be implemented in a GPU. We developed an MD program with the space decomposition algorithm, myPresto/psygene, and applied it to several biological macromolecular systems with GPUs implementing the ZD method. Rapid computing performance with high accuracy was obtained.