[gmx-developers] Parallelism in trajectory analysis tools

Szilárd Páll pall.szilard at gmail.com
Tue Aug 14 14:30:56 CEST 2018


IIRC there did not seem to be enough use cases for parallel analysis  at
the time (considering the limitations?), but I'm not sure. Unless I'm
remembering incorrectly, only independent per-frame processing was
possible, right?

--
Szilárd


On Tue, Aug 14, 2018 at 9:37 AM Kutzner, Carsten <ckutzne at gwdg.de> wrote:

> Hi Roland,
>
> thanks a lot, this seems like a good starting point for building
> an MPI-parallel tool! Is there any specific reason why this
> patch is lying dormant? Any road blocks, or just lack of
> resources?
>
> Best regards,
>   Carsten
>
>
> > On 14. Aug 2018, at 01:22, Schulz, Roland <roland.schulz at intel.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > We done some work on this at UT/ORNL in 2012/13. You find this at
> > https://gerrit.gromacs.org/c/1316/ . As far as I know no one has done
> anything since.
> >
> > Roland
> >
> >> -----Original Message-----
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> >> Behalf Of Kutzner, Carsten
> >> Sent: Thursday, August 9, 2018 7:46 AM
> >> To: <gmx-developers at gromacs.org> GROMACS development <gmx-
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> >> Subject: [gmx-developers] Parallelism in trajectory analysis tools
> >>
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> what is the status of using any type of parallelism to speed up
> trajectory
> >> analysis tools?
> >>
> >> I guess OpenMP should be no problem, but what about MPI?
> >>
> >> What are the plans here / what would be preferred in future patches?
> >>
> >> Thanks!
> >>  Carsten
> >>
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