MPMC

MPMC
Original author(s) Jon Belof (currently at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory) and the MPMC development team at the University of South Florida
Initial release 2012
Written in C, C++
Operating system Linux, OS X, any other Unix variety
Type Monte Carlo (simulation)
License GNU General Public License
Website github.com/mpmccode/mpmc

MPMC (Massively Parallel Monte Carlo) is an open source Monte Carlo package primarily designed for the simulation of liquids, molecular interfaces and functionalized nanoscale materials. It was originally developed by Jon Belof and is now maintained by a group of researchers in the Department of Chemistry and SMMARTT Materials Research Center at the University of South Florida.[1] MPMC has been applied to the scientific research challenges of nanomaterials for clean energy, carbon sequestration and molecular detection. Developed to run efficiently on the most powerful supercomputing platforms, MPMC can scale to extremely large numbers of CPUs or GPUs (with support provided for NVidia's CUDA architecture[2]). Since 2012, MPMC has been released as an open source project under the GNU General Public License v3, and the repository is hosted on GitHub.

History

MPMC was originally written by Jon Belof (then at the University of South Florida) in 2007 for applications toward the development of nanomaterials for hydrogen storage.[3] Since then MPMC has been released as an open source project and been extended to include a number of simulation techniques relevant to statistical physics. The code is now further maintained by a group of researchers (Christian Cioce, Keith McLaughlin, Brant Tudor, Adam Hogan and Brian Space) in the Department of Chemistry and SMMARTT Materials Research Center at the University of South Florida.

Features

MPMC is optimized for the study of nanoscale interfaces. MPMC supports simulation of Coulomb and Lennard-Jones systems, many-body polarization,[4] coupled-dipole van der Waals,[5] quantum rotational statistics,[6] semi-classical quantum effects, advanced importance sampling methods relevant to fluids, and numerous tools for the development of intermolecular potentials.[7][8][9][10] The code is designed to efficiently run on high-performance computing resources, including the network of some of the most powerful supercomputers in the world made available through the National Science Foundation supported project XSEDE.[11]

Applications

MPMC has been applied to the scientific challenges of discovering nanomaterials for clean energy applications,[12] the capture and sequestration of carbon dioxide,[13] design of tailored organometallic materials for chemical weapons detection,[14] and quantum effects in cryogenic hydrogen for spacecraft propulsion.[15] Additionally, the solid, liquid, supercritical and gaseous states of matter of N2[9] and CO2[10] have been simulated and published.

See also

References

  1. ↑ "MPMC". GitHub. 9 April 2015. Retrieved 9 April 2015.
  2. ↑ Brant Tudor, Brian Space (2013). "Solving the Many-Body Polarization Problem on GPUs: Application to MOFs". Journal of Computational Science Education 4 (1): 30–34.
  3. ↑ Belof, Jonathan L., Abraham C. Stern, Mohamed Eddaoudi and Brian Space (2007). "On the mechanism of hydrogen storage in a metal-organic framework material". Journal of the American Chemical Society 129 (49): 15202–15210. doi:10.1021/ja0737164.
  4. ↑ Keith McLaughlin, Christian R. Cioce, Tony Pham, Jonathan L. Belof and Brian Space (2013). "Efficient calculation of many-body induced electrostatics in molecular systems". The Journal of Chemical Physics 139: 184112. doi:10.1063/1.4829144.
  5. ↑ Keith McLaughlin, Christian R. Cioce, Jonathan L. Belof and Brian Space (2012). "A Molecular H2 Potential for Heterogeneous Simulations including Polarization and Many-Body van der Waals Interactions". Journal of Chemical Physics 136: 194302. doi:10.1063/1.4717705.
  6. ↑ Tony Pham, Katherine A. Forrest, Adam Hogan, Keith McLaughlin, Jonathan L. Belof, Juergen Eckert and Brian Space (2014). "Simulations of Hydrogen Sorption in rht-MOF-1: Identifying the Binding Sites Through Explicit Polarization and Quantum Rotation Calculations". Journal of Materials Chemistry A 2: 2088–2100. doi:10.1039/C3TA14591C.
  7. ↑ Jonathan L. Belof, Abraham C. Stern, and Brian Space (2008). "An Accurate and Transferable Intermolecular Diatomic Hydrogen Potential for Condensed Phase Simulation". Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation 4 (8): 1332–1337. doi:10.1021/ct800155q.
  8. ↑ Keith McLaughlin, Christian R. Cioce, Jonathan L. Belof, and Brian Space (2012). "A molecular H2 potential for heterogeneous simulations including polarization and many-body van der Waals interactions". The Journal of Chemical Physics 136: 194302. doi:10.1063/1.4717705.
  9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 Christian R. Cioce, Keith McLaughlin, Jonathan L. Belof, and Brian Space (2013). "A Polarizable and Transferable PHAST N2 Potential for Use in Materials Simulation". Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation 9 (12): 5550–5557. doi:10.1021/ct400526a.
  10. ↑ 10.0 10.1 Ashley L. Mullen, Tony Pham, Katherine A. Forrest, Christian R. Cioce, Keith McLaughlin, and Brian Space (2013). "A Polarizable and Transferable PHAST CO2 Potential for Materials Simulation". Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation 9 (12): 5421–5429. doi:10.1021/ct400549q.
  11. ↑ https://www.xsede.org/documents/10157/169907/X13_highlights.pdf
  12. ↑ Jonathan L. Belof, Abraham C. Stern and Brian Space (2009). "A Predictive Model of Hydrogen Sorption for Metal−Organic Materials". The Journal of Physical Chemistry C. 113 (21): 9316–9320. doi:10.1021/jp901988e.
  13. ↑ Tony Pham, Katherine A. Forrest, Keith McLaughlin, Brant Tudor, Patrick Nugent, Adam Hogan, Ashley Mullen, Christian R. Cioce, Michael J. Zaworotko and Brian Space (2013). "Theoretical Investigations of CO2 and H2 Sorption in an Interpenetrated Square-Pillared Metal–Organic Material". The Journal of Physical Chemistry C. 117 (19): 9970–9982. doi:10.1021/jp402764s.
  14. ↑ William A. Maza, Carissa M. Vetromile, Chungsik Kim, Xue Xu, X. Peter Zhang, and Randy W. Larsen (2013). "Spectroscopic Investigation of the Noncovalent Association of the Nerve Agent Simulant Diisopropyl Methylphosphonate (DIMP) with Zinc(II) Porphyrins". Journal of Physical Chemistry A. 117 (44): 11308–11315.
  15. ↑ David L. Block and Ali T-Raissi (February 2009). NASA Report: Hydrogen Research at Florida Universities (PDF) (Report). NASA. NASA/CR2009-215441.

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