Ultra-Fast Semi-Empirical Quantum Chemistry for High-Throughput Computational Campaigns with Sparrow
arXiv:2211.14392 · doi:10.1063/5.0136404
Abstract
Semi-empirical quantum chemical approaches are known to compromise accuracy for feasibility of calculations on huge molecules. However, the need for ultrafast calculations in interactive quantum mechanical studies, high-throughput virtual screening, and for data-driven machine learning has shifted the emphasis towards calculation runtimes recently. This comes with new constraints for the software implementation as many fast calculations would suffer from a large overhead of manual setup and other procedures that are comparatively fast when studying a single molecular structure, but which become prohibitively slow for high-throughput demands. In this work, we discuss the effect of various well-established semi-empirical approximations on calculation speed and relate this to data transfer rates from the raw-data source computer to the results visualization front end. For the former, we consider desktop computers, local high performance computing, as well as remote cloud services in order to elucidate the effect on interactive calculations, for web and cloud interfaces in local applications, and in world-wide interactive virtual sessions. The models discussed in this work have been implemented into our open-source software SCINE Sparrow.
arXiv comment39 pages, 4 figures, 4 tables
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