GPU Accelerated
MD Simulation

GPUMD is an efficient, open-source molecular dynamics (MD) simulation package based on heterogeneous CPU+GPU parallelization. Combined with machine-learning Neuroevolution Potential (NEP), it achieves a perfect unity of high precision and high efficiency.

Open Source
CUDA/HIP
GPU/DCU

Redefining Atomistic Simulation

More Accurate, Faster, Easier-to-use MD Software

GPUMD

GPUMD Features

GPUMD is a highly efficient open-source molecular dynamics simulation software. Developed natively with CUDA/HIP, it achieves extreme simulation efficiency on GPUs and DCUs. GPUMD supports various empirical potentials and NEP machine learning potentials, a single GPU delivers a computing speed of tens of millions of atom-steps per second.

  • Extreme Performance: Built for GPU/DCU, efficiently handles systems with tens of millions of atoms.
  • Easy to Use: Comprehensive docs, rich tools, active community.
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NEP

NEP Introduction

NEP is a machine learning potential function natively supported by GPUMD, based on neuro-evolution algorithms. It predicts energy, force, and virial with ab initio accuracy at a cost close to empirical potentials. NEP is suitable for large-scale MD simulations of complex materials.

  • Simulation Efficiency: A single GPU delivers a computing speed of tens of millions of atom-steps per second.
  • Data Efficiency: High quality potentials from small datasets.
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GPUMD News

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Science Paper
2025-11-06

GPUMD-NEP helps publish in "Science", revealing short-range order in semiconductors

Recently, "Science" published the latest research work on short-range order in semiconductor alloys by a collaborative team from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and George Washington University. This work captures and quantitatively characterizes short-range order in semiconductor alloys for the first time in experiments.

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GPUMD 4.0 Paper
2025-11-06

GPUMD 4.0 paper published in MGE Advances

GPUMD 4.0 was released on April 29, 2025, and the corresponding paper was published online in the domestic journal MGE Advances on August 3, 2025. Bohai University is the first author unit of this paper.

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Developer Conference
2025-06-01

1st GPUMD Developer Conference & AI-MD Frontier Symposium

The 1st GPUMD Developer Conference and AI Molecular Dynamics Frontier Symposium was successfully held in Ningbo in June 2025. The conference gathered developers and experts from all over the country to discuss the latest progress.

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Developers

Core Founder & Lead Developer

Zheyong Fan

Professor, Bohai University | Researcher, Suzhou National Laboratory

Ph.D. in theoretical physics from Nanjing University, Professor at Bohai University and Researcher at Suzhou National Laboratory. Created and maintained GPUMD. Proposed a general framework for many-body potentials and developed a series of methods for thermal transport simulations. Introduced the highly efficient NEP machine-learned potential method and has continuously advanced and expanded its capabilities.

Lead developer of GPUMD and NEP method.

Academic Advisor & Co-developer

Yanjing Su

Professor, USTB | Principal Researcher, Suzhou National Laboratory

Professor at the University of Science and Technology Beijing, Principal Researcher at Suzhou National Laboratory, and Deputy Director of the Artificial Intelligence Research Department. His research focuses on materials big data and machine learning, co-proposed the NEP machine learning potential method and provided academic guidance and support for the development and dissemination of GPUMD.

Guiding GPUMD project development and materials large model R&D.

GPUMD Ecosystem

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Supporting Units

Suzhou National Laboratory
Bohai University
USTB
NMBDC