[gmx-users] Gromacs on SGI Altix

David van der Spoel spoel at xray.bmc.uu.se
Tue Jan 3 17:17:56 CET 2006


Florian Haberl wrote:

>hi
>
>On Tuesday 03 January 2006 16:08, Mingfeng Yang wrote:
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>>Happy new year to each gromacs user!
>>
>>I just finished installation of Gromacs 3.3 on our Itanium2 based SGI
>>Altix. My configuration option is
>>
>>|./configure --prefix=/home/myang/usr/local/gromacs_intel --enable-mpi
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>>CC=icc F77=ifort|
>>The intel C++ compiler 9.021 and intel fortran compiler 9.021 were used.
>>The OS is Red Hat Enterprise WS 3.0.
>>
>>The parallel efficiency is kind of disappointing. For the benchmark case
>>of villin, it took 97 seconds with one CPU, 55 seconds with two CPUs,
>>and 35 seconds for 4 CPUs. From the benchmark pages of Gromacs website,
>>I saw the parallel efficiency can go beyond 100% under 8 CPUs. Is there
>>anything I missed? What supposed to be the best options when install
>>gromacs on Itanium2 based machine?
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>I think that d.villin is not the right benchmark for more cpus and measering 
>parallel speedup.
>I would prefer here d.dppc as shown on gromacs webpage. Reason for this bad 
>scalling is is small system size.
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Apart from that, what interconnect are you using? And which MPI library? 
I presume the Altix has some kind of nice interconnect, but do you use it?

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>>Thank you for any input!
>>
>>Mingfeng
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>greetings,
>
>florian
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