MBX v1.3.0 [2025-07-09]Download v1.3.0

Release Notes

  • Major update: MBX 1.3 contains numerous improvements, mostly to performance.

Changelog

  • Added a variety of new configuration options to enable optional optimizations.
  • Evaluation of MB-pol 2- and 3-body PIPs can now use SIMD instructions if enabled with new configuration options. Depending on your hardware, this produces anywhere between a 1.25x and 2.0x overall speed-up for the entire MB-pol PEF.
  • Refactored dispersion and Lennard-Jones to be more efficient on large boxes.
  • Intel Threading Building Blocks library can be used if enabled with new configuration options, significantly improving performance on large boxes.
  • Intel intrinsic math functions can now be used if enabled with new configuration options, significantly improving performance on large boxes.
  • Many small improvements to OpenMP parallelism.
  • Many small performance improvements, including many that are most impactful on large boxes.
  • Can now specify the 2-body PIP cutoff separately from the real-space cutoff used for dispersion and electrostatics.