[gmx-users] GPU low performance

[Justin Lemkul]

On 2/18/15 10:30 AM, Carmen Di Giovanni wrote:
> Daear all,
> I'm working on a machine with an INVIDIA Teska K20.
> After a minimization on a protein of 1925 atoms this is the mesage:
>
> Force evaluation time GPU/CPU: 2.923 ms/116.774 ms = 0.025
> For optimal performance this ratio should be close to 1!
>

Minimization is a poor indicator of performance.  Do a real MD run.

>
> NOTE: The GPU has >25% less load than the CPU. This imbalance causes
> performance loss.
>
> Core t (s) Wall t (s) (%)
> Time: 3289.010 205.891 1597.4
> (steps/hour)
> Performance: 8480.2
> Finished mdrun on rank 0 Wed Feb 18 15:50:06 2015
>
>
> Cai I improve the performance?
> At the moment in the forum I didn't full informations to solve this problem.
> In attachment there is the log. file
>

The list does not accept attachments.  If you wish to share a file, upload it to 
a file-sharing service and provide a URL.  The full .log is quite important for 
understanding your hardware, optimizations, and seeing full details of the 
performance breakdown.  But again, base your assessment on MD, not EM.

-Justin

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