[gmx-users] GPU performance

[Justin Lemkul]

On 4/3/14, 7:04 AM, pratibha wrote:
> Hi all
>
> I am running my simulations on GPU cluster. Cluster has 4 nodes with 1GPU
> card in each. I am observing that GPU gives good performance (12ns/day) when
> no other simulations are running on that node. However if even one job is
> running on that node, it gives horrible performance (100 ps/day). Is it
> natural to happen or something wrong in my parameters?

That's the case with any simulation.  If you start competing for resources, the 
performance suffers.

-Justin

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