[gmx-users] AMD GPUs

Johnny Lu johnny.lu128 at gmail.com
Thu Dec 18 23:30:49 CET 2014


How about the open cl port of gromacs?

http://streamcomputing.eu/blog/2014-11-01/ported-gromacs-cuda-opencl/

might have to check the list of bugs of 5.0 though.

On Thu, Dec 18, 2014 at 5:16 AM, Szilárd Páll <pall.szilard at gmail.com>
wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Please don't hijack other discussion threads!
>
> AMD GPUs will be supported in the next release, people did not use
> them before because they were not supported.
>
> Regarding performance, I only know the results of some early
> benchmarks in which the fastest card used was an R9 290 and ran about
> as fast as as GTX 780. Based on this expect that even the R9 290X will
> be a lot slower than a GTX 980, but it would be great if people on the
> list could try.
>
> Cheers,
> --
> Szilárd
>
>
> On Thu, Dec 18, 2014 at 9:26 AM, Albert <mailmd2011 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hi Szilard:
> >
> > If I understand correctly, Gromacs also support AMD GPU? How fast is it?
> I
> > never see people use it beforer....
> >
> > THX
> >
> > Albert
> >
> >
> > On 12/17/2014 10:09 PM, Szilárd Páll wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi Jason,
> >>
> >> Good point, separate PME ranks may very well be able to help in this
> >> case. I typically use half of the ranks for PME with AMD CPU-based
> >> machines (from  3-4 sockets and above).
> >
> >
> --
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