Immersive out-of-core visualization of large-size and long-timescale molecular dynamics trajectories

Authors:
John E. Stone;Kirby L. Vandivort;Klaus Schulten
Affiliations:
Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign;Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign;Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Department of Physics
Venue:
ISVC'11 Proceedings of the 7th international conference on Advances in visual computing - Volume Part II
Year:
2011

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Abstract

Atomistic molecular dynamics (MD) simulations of biomolecules provide insight into their physical mechanisms and potential as drug targets. Unfortunately, such simulations are extremely demanding in terms of computation, storage, and visualization. Immersive visualization environments permit fast, intuitive exploration of the pharmacological potential, but add further demands on resources. We describe the design and application of out-of-core visualization techniques for large-size and long-timescale MD simulations involving many terabytes of data, including in particular: fast regeneration of molecular representations, atom selection mechanisms, out-of-core optimized MD trajectory file formats, and multithreaded programming techniques. Our approach leverages technological advances in commodity solid state disk (SSD) devices, to enable trajectory animation rates for large structures that were previously unachievable except by in-core approaches, while maintaining full visualization flexibility. The out-of-core visualization techniques are implemented and evaluated in VMD, a widely used molecular visualization tool.