[gmx-users] Do need to recompile GROMACS with hardware changes

[Mark Abraham]

Hi,

On Tue, Nov 13, 2018 at 8:15 AM Darin Lory-External <
darin.lory at regeneron.com> wrote:

> To Distribution:
>
> Do you need to recompile GROMACS with any hardware changes, i.e. 1 GPU to
> 8 GPU or 16 GPUs.
>

No. You might require a recompilation if the generation of the hardware
changes, or the available libraries or drivers are of a different version
or in a different place.

My coworker says he saw this requirement in the documentation.  But with
> the new release 2018.4, it's not there.
>

There's no requirement to do so. But doing so ensures no problems and
maximum performance. Depends what you know about your execution environment.

Mark