# Accelerate performance

This section describes various methods for improving LAMMPS performance
for different classes of problems running on different kinds of
machines.

There are two thrusts to the discussion that follows. The first is using
code options that implement alternate algorithms that can speed-up a
simulation. The second is to use one of the several accelerator packages
provided with LAMMPS that contain code optimized for certain kinds of
hardware, including multicore CPUs, GPUs, and Intel Xeon Phi
co-processors.

The [Benchmark page](https://www.lammps.org/bench.html)\_ of the LAMMPS
website gives performance results for the various accelerator packages
discussed on the [Accelerator packages](Speed_packages) page, for
several of the standard LAMMPS benchmark problems, as a function of
problem size and number of compute nodes, on different hardware
platforms.

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Speed_bench Speed_measure Speed_tips Speed_packages Speed_compare
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