Table 6. Cost Associated with Different PEFs (with Flexible Monomers) for a Molecular Dynamics Step in a System Containing 256 Water Molecules in Periodic Boundary Conditionsa.
PEF | class | cost per MD step relative to q-TIP4P/F |
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q-TIP4P/F37 | pairwise additive PEF | 1× |
TTM3-F40 | implicit many-body PEF | 7× |
MB-pol144,191,249 | explicit many-body PEF | 47× |
All timings are relative to q-TIP4P/F,37 an empirical point-charge pairwise additive PEF, and were obtained using a modified version of DL_POLY2 using a single core of a typical Intel Xeon E5-2640 based workstation.