For analysis of molecular dynamics (MD) simulations MDTraj is a fast and commonly used analysis. However MDTraj has some restrictions such as (1) the whole trajectory needs to fit into memory, or gathering results becomes inconvenient; (2) the result of the computation also need to fit into memory, and (3) all processes need access to all the memory, preventing out-of-machine parallelisation and HPC scaling.
Dask-traj solves these restrictions by rewriting the MDTraj functions to work with Dask in order to achieve out-of-memory computations. Combined with dask-distributed this allows for out-of-machine parallelisation, essential for HPCs, and results in a (surprising) speed-up even on a single machine.
Source code
The source code for this module, and modules that build on it, is hosted at https://github.com/sroet/dask-traj.
