[gmx-users] Scaling on superclusters

[David van der Spoel]

On Wed, 2005-01-26 at 08:06 +0100, Florian Haberl wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> has anyone been tried to run gromacs on some more cpus, let me say > 100 cpus 
> up to 1000  ( for example on a sgi altix, Itanium-2 with numalink). Will 
> there be still scaling or will there be a limit by  the non parallel part of 
> gromacs, and where will there be this limit?
I will try next week. I'm not sure people have really tried with more
than 32 CPUs. 32 works for large problems (e.g. 100,000 atoms) and
without PME (although a fix for that is underway).
> 
> Other question is which test system or even useful system can there be taken, 
> cause this rather small once from the benchmark will not work.  
> 
> Greetings,
> 
> Florian
> 
-- 
David.
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