MCSIMUL

MCSIMUL has been developed at VSB - Technical University of Ostrava, Czech Republic. The program package is intended for classical Monte Carlo simulations of selected systems (like pure and/or doped water and mercury clusters) at canonical (NVT) and isobaric-isothermal (NPT) statistical ensembles. Different interaction models (rigid or flexible molecules, polarizable molecules) and different admixtures (rare gas atoms, methane molecule) are implemented. Codes are written in Fortran 90 and are parallelized using an MPI protocol where each system (at particular temperature and pressure may) by simulated on each own core. Parallel tempering swaps are implemented and information between different systems is ensured using MPI send/receive procedures.

 

The code has been tested and used on the following computers:
Anselm: x86-64 Linux cluster at IT4Innovations Ostrava, 209 nodes with Intel Sandy Bridge, Infiniband QDR interconnect
Abel: x86-64 Linux cluster at University of Oslo, 650 nodes with Intel Sandy Bridge, Infiniband FDR interconnect
Karadeniz: x86-64 Linux cluster at UHEM Istanbul, 64 nodes with Intel Nehalem, Infiniband 20 Gbps interconnect
Karolina: AMD based cluster at IT4Innovations Ostrava, see here

 

Authors:
Aleš Vítek, VSB - Technical University of Ostrava, (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)

Martin Stachoň

 

Publications by developers:
Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 12 (2010) 41, 13657-13666, A. Vítek, R. Kalus, I. Paidarová
Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 14 (2012) 44, 15509-15519, A. Vítek, A. Ofiala and R. Kalus
Comp. Phys. Communications 185 (2014) 1595–1605, A. Vítek and R. Kalus
Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 17 (2015) 10532, A. Vítek, R. Kalus
Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 17 (2015) 8792, A. Vítek et al.
J. Phys. Chem. C 120 (2016) 26093, D. J. Arismendi-Arrieta, A. Vítek, R. Prosmiti
Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 20 (2018) 28871, R. Ćosić, A. Vítek, R. Kalus
RCS Advances 9 (2019) 37258, M. Šarmanová, A. Vítek, R. Ćosić, R. Kalus
J. Phys. Chem. A 124 (2020) 4036, A. Vítek, D. J. Arismendi-Arrieta, M. Šarmanová, R. Kalus, R. Prosmiti
Theor. Chem. Accounts 140 (2021) 54, A. Vítek, M. Šarmanová, R. Kalus
Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 24 (2022) 6915, A. Vítek, R. Kalus

 

Acknowledgements

The software development has been financially supported by EU Operational Programmes Research and Development for Innovations and Education for Competitiveness funded by Structural Funds of the European Union and the state budget of the Czech Republic (grants no. CZ.1.05/1.1.00/02.0070 and CZ.1.07/2.3.00/30.0055), by the Grant Agency of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic (grant no. IAA401870702), and by the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports of the Czech Republic (grant no. MSM6198910027). The calculations were performed on the HPC resources of UHEM: National Center for High Performance Computing, Turkey, and the University Center for Information Technology, University of Oslo, Norway, made available within the Distributed European Computing Initiative by the PRACE-2IP, receiving funding from the European Community’s Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007–2013) under grant no. RI-283493, and on the computers of the National Supercomputing Center of the Czech Republic,Technical University of Ostrava (grant no. IT4I-1-5).