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GPU-Accelerated VASP Poised to Improve Solar, Chip Design, Electric Cars

Nov 18, 2015

By Brad Nemire

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VASP, the Vienna Ab Initio Simulation Program, simulates materials at the atomic level to help researchers understand structure and properties for developing better, stronger, or more reactive materials.
The application runs 2.5x to 4x faster on the Tesla Accelerated Computing Platform.
VASP consumes up to 15 percent of computing cycles across major supercomputers worldwide and is widely used in universities and industry.

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Now 2.5X to 4X Faster, one of the most popular applications to study the behavior of materials at the atomic level is taking advantage of the Telsa Accelerated Computing Platform.

VASP – short for Vienna Ab Initio Simulation Program – simulates at the atomic level everything from electronics, catalysts and magnetic materials to glass, rubber, metal, ceramics and more. It helps researchers understand the underlying structure of a material and its properties, so that researchers can develop materials that are better, stronger, more reactive or perform in certain way.

VASP is enormously popular in universities and industry. It consumes up to 15 percent of the computing cycles across major supercomputers worldwide.
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About Brad Nemire
Brad Nemire leads the Developer Communications team at NVIDIA. Prior to NVIDIA, he worked at Arm on the Developer Relations team. Brad graduated from San Diego State University and currently resides in Silicon Valley.

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