[gmx-users] Computational efficiency

[Diego Enry]

On Thu, Mar 6, 2008 at 1:26 PM, Ricardo Soares <rsoares at fcfrp.usp.br> wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
>  I have 3 available computers for my simulations; two of them are dual
>  core. Which is better for me: run one simulation each independently or
>  parallelize them all?
>

In theory, if the simulations are independent it would be faster to
run them independently, but you actually doubles the speed if you run
in parallel in a SINGLE dual core machine.
I would not recommend you to parallelize it to more than one machine
if your network fabric is Gigabit Ethernet... unless you are really in
a hurry to finish a single simulation.

have fun !

>  Thanks!
>
>  Ricardo.
>
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Diego Enry B. Gomes
Laboratório de Modelagem e Dinamica Molecular
Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro - Brasil.