On 31/10/2011 12:28 PM, Sanku M wrote:
Hi,
I just compiled gromacs 4.5.4 in a cluster. But, I find that if I try
to make use of threading introduced in gromacs 4.5.x series, it does
not work.
After issuing command like mdrun -v -s , I expected that for my
8-core processor which is not running any other jobs, the threading
will show one job with 800 % cpu usage. But, it is showing 100 % cpu
usage hence using only 1 of the 8 processors. I was wondering whether
there is any command line I need to use to ensure the gromacs
understands that there is 8 processors in a core and force make full
use of the entire machine.
I have tried the same thing in another different cluster where I found
that threading works with showing 800 % cpu usage . But, for this
cluster , the threading does not work.
These metrics are unreliable unless you have documentation stating what
800% vs 100% means, and that you have 8 physical cores - virtual cores
are not useful for GROMACS, because they derive their benefit from
overlapping downtime on one process (e.g. accessing memory) with compute
time on another and GROMACS does not have significant downtime.
If you have compiled with threading, then the top of the .log file
reports how many threads GROMACS has automatically determined to use.
You should then look at performance of runs over several minutes to
determine what speed-up is occurring.
Mark
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