[gmx-users] best price/performance for GMX?

[Alan Wilter Sousa da Silva]

Hi All!

That's a good question.  I'm using a 100 Mb/s ethernet with Lam too and
dind't find gromacs performace in parallel so spectacular.  Does it depend
on network speed? My molecular system?

As soon as I install gromacs in SGI Origin 4 proc. I'll take new
tests.  For the moment we are running simulations on GNU/linux cluster. 


On Mon, 24 Sep 2001, Bert de Groot wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> We're about to extend our linux cluster and are interested to hear if there's any specific hardware that you, fellow gromacs-ers, recommend.
> So far we have a cluster consisting of 40 dual PII/PIII using standard
> fast ethernet (100 Mb/s) and our experience is that with a typical system size of about 100.000 atoms using PME, the scaling with LAM-MPI and also MPICH is not very spectacular. So in practice, most jobs are running on a single, two-processor node, which
> is not too bad with the speed that gromacs offers, but still for some jobs it would be nice to be able tu use more than two processors.  Would a gigabit ethernet or Myrinet help?
> And if yes, how much?
> 
> cheers,
> 
> Bert
> 
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Alan Wilter S. da Silva
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 Laboratório de Física Biológica
  Instituto de Biofísica Carlos Chagas Filho
   Universidade do Brasil/UFRJ
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