# January 22nd, biweekly GROMACS developer meeting - morning edition

**URL:** <https://gromacs.bioexcel.eu/t/january-22nd-biweekly-gromacs-developer-meeting-morning-edition/10977>\
**Category:** Developers discussions\
**Created:** [January 13, 2025, 3:40pm UTC](https://gromacs.bioexcel.eu/t/january-22nd-biweekly-gromacs-developer-meeting-morning-edition/10977 "2025-01-13T15:40:15Z")\
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**Author:** ![avilla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f1d935/32.png) [@avilla](https://gromacs.bioexcel.eu/u/avilla)\
**Post date:** [January 13, 2025, 3:40pm UTC](https://gromacs.bioexcel.eu/t/january-22nd-biweekly-gromacs-developer-meeting-morning-edition/10977/1 "2025-01-13T15:40:15Z")

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Dear all,

Next GROMACS developer meeting will be Wednesday, January 22, 2025 10:00 AM on zoom.

If there are any specific topics you wish to discuss, just answer to this post. So, everybody else interested can join and contribute to the discussion. :)

**When** 2025-01-22 at 11:00 CET

Where: [Join our Zoom Meeting (magic link)](https://kth-se.zoom.us/j/69277089234?pwd=V2MwM0JJaGJOK3dDUWlhcWx6YUM5QT09)

Meeting ID: 692 7708 9234  
Password: gmxdevs

Join by SIP:  
[69277089234@zoom.nordu.net](mailto:69277089234@zoom.nordu.net)

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**Author:** ![avilla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f1d935/32.png) [@avilla](https://gromacs.bioexcel.eu/u/avilla)\
**Post date:** [January 13, 2025, 3:44pm UTC](https://gromacs.bioexcel.eu/t/january-22nd-biweekly-gromacs-developer-meeting-morning-edition/10977/2 "2025-01-13T15:44:00Z")

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Please add topics that you would like to discuss on the meeting in the list below :

- Update in Interpolated Mechanics in GROMACS using the MD Module. Sowon Kim (KAIST) and Juan de Gracia (PDC-KTH)
- Implementing FEP calculations on GPUs - Issue #4802. Yiqi Chen, research scientist at MetaX Technology,
- \<_very brief description of the topic, and link to information on the ideas or to the issue_\> \< _who you are_\>

The meeting agenda will be finalized the Tuesday before the call

Note this is a wiki post: Everybody in the developer category can edit!  
To be able to post on the developers category, you need to member of the forum and send a request to join the GROMACS developers group (using the [following link](https://gromacs.bioexcel.eu/g/gmx_developers)

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**Author:** ![avilla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f1d935/32.png) [@avilla](https://gromacs.bioexcel.eu/u/avilla)\
**Post date:** [January 21, 2025, 8:12am UTC](https://gromacs.bioexcel.eu/t/january-22nd-biweekly-gromacs-developer-meeting-morning-edition/10977/3 "2025-01-21T08:12:59Z")

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Dear all,

Next GROMACS developer meeting will be tomorrow Wednesday, January 22, 2025 10:00 AM  
Meeting agenda:

- Welcome and update on call structure (Alessandra)
- Update in Interpolated Mechanics in GROMACS using the MD Module. Sowon Kim (KAIST) and Juan de Gracia (PDC-KTH)
- Implementing FEP calculations on GPUs - Issue #4802. Yiqi Chen, research scientist at MetaX Technology

We generally reserve in total 20 min for each topic presentation and discussion. We suggest to use 5-10 min to present the problem and focus on a question that you want to address.  
After the call, we invite today topic presenters, @juandegracia and @YiqiChen, post in _this topic_ some notes about the topic discussion to keep track of the discussion.

Below zoom details

See you tomorrow

**When** 2025-01-22 at 11:00 CET

Where: [Join our Zoom Meeting (magic link)](https://kth-se.zoom.us/j/69277089234?pwd=V2MwM0JJaGJOK3dDUWlhcWx6YUM5QT09)

Meeting ID: 692 7708 9234  
Password: gmxdevs

Join by SIP:  
[69277089234@zoom.nordu.net](mailto:69277089234@zoom.nordu.net)

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**Author:** ![juandegracia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/58f4c7/32.png) [@juandegracia](https://gromacs.bioexcel.eu/u/juandegracia)\
**Post date:** [January 22, 2025, 10:34am UTC](https://gromacs.bioexcel.eu/t/january-22nd-biweekly-gromacs-developer-meeting-morning-edition/10977/4 "2025-01-22T10:34:34Z")

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Summary of IM implementation:  
The implementation is already working and showing good results.  
The code will be announced as a third party contribution.

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**Author:** ![YiqiChen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/3ec8ea/32.png) [@YiqiChen](https://gromacs.bioexcel.eu/u/YiqiChen)\
**Post date:** [January 23, 2025, 2:12am UTC](https://gromacs.bioexcel.eu/t/january-22nd-biweekly-gromacs-developer-meeting-morning-edition/10977/5 "2025-01-23T02:12:00Z")

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Summary of FEP-on-GPU Implementation:

- The GPU-resident version on Nvidia A100 is 2.5x faster than the current FEP-on-CPU approach.

- Validation results show that FEP results computed on GPU are numerically precise.

- Please check Issue #4802 and Merge Request !4804 for updates on the merging progress.
