What is it?

ACEMD Platform is a complete and fast solution package, designed to run and analyze your molecular dynamics (MD) simulations. It includes both ACEMD and HTMD packages. ACEMD is the MD engine that runs the simulation, while HTMD is a Python package that you can use to create systems, prepare them and, once ACEMD has finished simulating those systems, analyze their trajectories

Testimonials

ACEMD has provided a significant boost in performance, even a single GPU card out performs several hundred CPU-cores. With 10 cards we can easily generate microsecond level sampling in a few days.

P. K. Agarwal, Ph.D., ORNL
ACEMD is an admirable molecular dynamics tool that clearly holds its promises.

L. Gauthier, Ph.D., Sanofi
Acellera and ACEMD afforded us a straightforward new tool based on its amazing MD engine performance capable to exploit fully the latest GPU hardwares. It can be easily plugged to extra codes for a maximal versatility and no doubts remains on its usefulness for an atomic scale interpretation of biomolecular NMR data and its specific spectroscopic time-scales.

O. Walker, Ph.D. and JM. Lancelin, Ph.D., University of Lyon
ACEMD is without any doubt a versatile program that exploit the full potential of MD simulations, using cost-effective hardware solutions, that can be adapted to every Molecular Modeling laboratory needs.

D. Sabbadin, Ph.D., University of Padova
The combination between ACEMD and a single GTX-780 helped us to understand discrete events happening between two metastable intermediates. The combination of MD simulations and experimental data was key to achieve our goal.

A. Perálvarez, Ph.D., Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona

ACEMD: A GPU-optimized MD engine

ACEMD is a high-performance molecular dynamics code to simulate biomolecular systems. It was specifically designed to run on Nvidia GPUs, which provides a dramatic increase in speed compared with CPU-based engines: one GPU card can outperform up to hundreds of CPU units running in parallel . ACEMD and NAMD both use very similar commands, input and output files. ACEMD has the following features and capabilities:

Compatible with ff99SB and charmm36 force fields
Supported input file formats: PDB, PSF, PRMTOP, NAMD Bincoor
Output file formats: PDB, NAMD Bincoor, XTC
Thermostat Langevin
Constraints and restraints M-SHAKE with RATTLE correction, positional harmonic restraints
Total integration with HTMD

Running on a GTX1080 card with ff99SB force field,
you will get an estimated amount of: 0 ns/day

Benchmarking conditions

HTMD: A Python package to manipulate molecules

HTMD is a unique, molecular-specific, programmable environment to prepare, handle, simulate, visualize and analyze molecular systems. HTMD is written in Python, in order to allow scientists to easily extend it to their needs and use it in combination with their favorite Python libraries. With HTMD, it is possible to perform very complex protocols with just a few lines of code. With a single script, you can plan an entire computational experiment, starting with the preparation of the molecular structures and finishing with the analysis of its simulation, including calculating Markov state models, kinetic rates, affinities and binding pathways.

Documentation for HTMD is available at: software.acellera.com

References of HTMD are available at: Acellera > Science

All apps in Playmolecule.com are build with HTMD: playmolecule.com

METROCUBO: WORKSTATION with ACEMD platform inside

MetroCubo is the hardware-software solution developed by Acellera, and based on the ACEMD Platform. This ready-to-use machine of proprietary design comes pre-installed and tested with ACEMD, guaranteeing best performance and efficiency with 4 GPUs per node, and HTMD offering accurate trajectory analysis.

My impression is good since the beginning, in a workstation with 4 GPUs we have the power of a small supercomputer.

M. Ceccarelli, Ph.D., University of Cagliari

MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATION APPS

Acellera has developed a set of applications to prepare and analyze MD simulations that run on our drug discovery platform: PlayMolecule. You can try these applications online for free, or request a quote for local use. Learn more.