[gmx-users] Attempting to scale gromacs mdrun_mpi

[Mark Abraham]

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From: NG HUI WEN <HuiWen.Ng at nottingham.edu.my>
Date: Friday, August 27, 2010 15:55
Subject: [gmx-users] Attempting to scale gromacs mdrun_mpi
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 > Thanks a lot Roland! >   > I'm using Beowulf cluster which I believe uses ethernet connection (1 node = 1 cpu in my case). I found an article by Kutzner et al (2006) which talks about the problem in speeding up parallel processing in such clusters. Does it mean that if i continue to use the ethernet-connected cluster and not gone for the 4.5 beta version, I'm stuck with a low number of processors due to the difficulty in scaling? Thanks again for your advice!

Yes. Ethernet, even gigabit, is not up to the job of doing the required communication for GROMACS for more than a handful of processors. You can get what you pay for with networking hardware, I'm afraid :-)

Mark
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