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. 2023 Feb 3;14:579. doi: 10.1038/s41467-023-36329-y

Table 4.

Simulation times obtainable in [ns/day] and time required per atom per step in [microseconds] for varying number of atoms and computational resources

Material Number of atoms Number of GPUs Speed in ns/day Microseconds/(atom ⋅ step)
Li3PO4 192 1 32.391 27.785
Li3PO4 421,824 1 0.518 0.552
Li3PO4 421,824 2 1.006 0.284
Li3PO4 421,824 4 1.994 0.143
Li3PO4 421,824 8 3.810 0.075
Li3PO4 421,824 16 6.974 0.041
Li3PO4 421,824 32 11.530 0.025
Li3PO4 421,824 64 15.515 0.018
Li3PO4 50,331,648 128 0.274 0.013
Ag 71 1 90.190 67.463
Ag 1,022,400 1 1.461 0.289
Ag 1,022,400 2 2.648 0.160
Ag 1,022,400 4 5.319 0.079
Ag 1,022,400 8 10.180 0.042
Ag 1,022,400 16 18.812 0.022
Ag 1,022,400 32 28.156 0.015
Ag 1,022,400 64 43.438 0.010
Ag 1,022,400 128 49.395 0.009
Ag 100,640,512 128 1.539 0.003

Time steps of 2fs and 5fs were used for Li3PO4 and Ag, respectively.