[gmx-users] P4 vs P3 performance ? Special compilation options ?

[David van der Spoel]

On Tue, 26 Mar 2002, Marc Baaden wrote:

>I just did a quick but pertinent benchmark, comparing
>a single-processor job on a 1.266 GHz PIII versus the
>same job on a 1.7 GHz PIV (Xeon) .. and the Xeon is
>slower ! taking about 10% longer.
>
>Is this right (eg the effect of the increased pipeline
>length in the P4's) ? Or are there some special compilation
>options to get the Gromacs code on Xeons at high speed ?

Hm, how big is the system? Your P3 probably has a larger cache than the P4 



Groeten, David.
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