[gmx-users] graphics card fail during mdrun

[Szilárd Páll]

The behavior of most programs in case of a hardware failure is
undefined. However, as an MD simulation is quite sensitive to data
corruption, the simulation will most often crash immediately after
such an event. However, I can also imagine that mdrun ends up hanging,
e.g. waiting for data from the GPU.

How do you know that the card has failed? In what way did it fail?
Were you using both cards?

Btw, the Quadro 2000 is a rather slow card, did it really improve
performance using it together with the C2075 (in the same
run/simulation)?


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Szilárd


On Mon, Jan 27, 2014 at 1:38 PM, unitALX <alec.zander at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello!
>
> I was running a simulation using both of the graphics cards on my desktop (I
> have one Tesla C2075 and one Quadro 2000, which also handles monitor
> output). I am pretty sure the Quadro 2000 has failed this morning, and I was
> wondering, what happens to an mdrun in progress when one of the graphics
> cards fails?
>
>
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