[gmx-users] what is the difference between the 2016.x and the 5.x series?

[Szilárd Páll]

Additionally, if you care about getting the best performance on your
hardware be aware that distro-packaged GROMACS versions are generally
optimized for the lowest common denominator CPU architectural capabilities
and will not be able to make the best use of modern CPU instructions sets.
Hence, if performance matter for you, do compile from source.

For more details see:
http://manual.gromacs.org/documentation/2016.3/install-guide/index.html#simd-support

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Szilárd

On Wed, Jul 12, 2017 at 5:51 PM, Jose Borreguero <borreguero at gmail.com>
wrote:

> will do, thanks for the tip.
>
> On Wed, Jul 12, 2017 at 11:42 AM, Mark Abraham <mark.j.abraham at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > That kind of information is in the release notes, e.g. at
> > http://manual.gromacs.org/documentation/. Perhaps you want to start with
> > the 2016 ones :-)
> >
> > Mark
> >
> > On Wed, Jul 12, 2017 at 5:39 PM Jose Borreguero <borreguero at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > Dear Gromacs users,
> > >
> > > I'm a relatively new user of Gromacs and recently realized there is a
> > > "2016" branch that is still being updated. What is the difference with
> > the
> > > 5.x branch?
> > >
> > > I ask because I could find RPM packages only for the 2016 version, much
> > > easier to install than building from source.
> > >
> > > Best,
> > > .Jose
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