[gmx-users] Gromacs on Nvidia 830M

[B P]

Thank you Szilárd. I'm running the laptop on i3. Also taking care of
cooling issues.

Am amazed that Gromacs pushes CPU harder than prime95.

Regards,
BP.

On Thu, Apr 9, 2015 at 1:18 AM, Szilárd Páll <pall.szilard at gmail.com> wrote:

> It should work but as others have noted, you may run into cooling
> issues. Your performance will also depend on the CPU you have - if
> it's some fast i5 or i7, the 830M may not be able to improve the
> performance much.
>
> On the other hand, I would not advise you to run GROMACS on a laptop
> for extended periods of time without being sure that you have adequate
> cooling and it does not overheat. GROMACS can be quite brutal
> especially on the CPU (I have seen it push the CPU harder that the
> thought-to-be aggressive prime95 benchmark mainstream websites use for
> burn-in).
>
> --
> Szilárd
>
>
> On Mon, Apr 6, 2015 at 8:57 AM, B P <4gromacs at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Dear users,
> > I perfectly understand that gromacs is not for laptops. However, I was
> > wondering about gromacs performing on an i3 laptop with Nvidia 830M with
> > 4Gb memory. Has anyone tried?
> >
> > Regards,
> > BP.
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