Bachelor's thesis presentation. Ivander is advised by Samuel James Newcome.
Previous talks at the SCCS Colloquium
Ivander Alson Tanjaya: Simulation of Supercooled Argon Gas using the Smoothed Lennard-Jones Potential in md-flexible
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In molecular dynamics, the Lennard Jones potential is a popular first choice for the force calculation between particle pairs, but for some scenarios, such as supercooling of Argon, the standard truncated Lennard Jones potential might introduce inaccuracies in
the simulation due to the sudden jump at the cutoff point. This paper presents the implementation of the vectorized smoothed Lennard Jones potential using three different approaches: auto-vectorized, masked, and gather scatter. Furthermore, the SIMD implementation done in this project is written using the SIMD wrapper library Google Highway to provide a balance of portability and performance.