[gmx-users] One dual-CPU computer or a cluster?

[Oliver Beckstein]

Hi,

My experience with smallish systems like this (and PME electristatics) is
that 2 dual cpu machines are by far your best bet (a lot better tha, say,
4 cpus on a cluster). Put it on your workstation and let it churn away in
the background (on linux I use 'lamboot -v; nohup mpirun C -c2c -np 2 
mdrun_mpi -v -np 2 -nice 19 ... 2>&1 >out_md &') 

Oliver

On Wed, 9 Apr 2003, Itamar Kass wrote:

>    Dear friend, I have a system of about 12,000 atoms (lipid in a membrane with
> solvent).  I wonder if it will be faster to run it over one computer with two
> CPU (mac), or use more macs using the ethernet.  Does someone has ideas how can
> I check it, or what is better?
>  
>  thanks, Kass. 
> 
> 
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... in fact, they hardly work at all ...

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