[gmx-users] Fatal error: ci = -2147483616 should be in 0 ...

[Erik Lindahl]

Peter C. Lai wrote:

>afaik, Athlon/Duron class chips work fine. I'm not surprised,
>since it appears that K6 chips have first/second generation 3DNow implementations
>that don't play nice with gromacs 3DNow code (which afaik has been deprecated
>in favor of SSE anyway). Any devs want to correct me if I'm wrong on this
>speculation? 
>In any case, it appears that people on this mailing list
>have used gromacs successfully with Athlon in default software configurations.
>  
>
Hi Peter,

Well, your half right; I'm not developing the 3Dnow loops anymore since 
all CPUs
since the Athlon-XP/MP support SSE.

There have been some issues with SMP (multiprocessor) operation on 
Athlons using
LAM, so you might want to consider Intel Xeons for SMP if the price 
difference is small.

Cheers,

Erik