[Fwd: Re: [gmx-users] VSMP cluster performance changes with time]

[Mark Abraham]

On 19/08/2011 5:07 PM, Anupam Nath Jha wrote:
> Is it the problem with the gromacs?
>
>>
>> Probably not. Assuming you have kept everything else constant, it is likely that
>> other activity on the machine or file system is delaying you somehow.

This is still likely to be true. Other activity (other users jobs, heavy 
I/O demand etc.) can starve GROMACS for resources. If you are doing 
everything the same, then something you are not controlling must be 
different.

Mark