There are several ongoing projects on accelerating quantum chemistry codes using CUDA-enabled GPUs, including work on Gaussian and GAMESS. The charts below are representative results, followed by links to software and technical reports on CUDA acceleration of computational chemistry.
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| Direct self-consistent field (SCF) calculations Ufimtsev and Martinez |
Two-Electron integral evaluation Koji Yasuda |
| ISV/Application | Supported Features | Expected Speed up* | Release Status |
| GAMESS-US | Libqc with Rys Quadrature Algorithm, integral evaluation, closed shell Fock matrix construction. | In development | |
| NWChem | Triples part of Reg-CCSD(T), CCSD & EOMCCSD task schedulers | 3-8x projected | In development |
| Q-CHEM | Various features including RI-MP2. | In development | |
| TeraChem | “Full GPU-based solution”. | 44-650x | Released, v1.45 |
| VASP | Davidson iteration scheme | 3x-6.5x | Released |
* Expected Speed Up vs a quad-core x64 CPU based system. Speed-ups as per NVIDIA in house testing or application provider documentation.
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