I believe the answer pretty much depends on how large speedup you get with your present setup. Would you provide this info?
Dr. Vitaly V. Chaban On Wed, Apr 2, 2014 at 7:14 PM, Amjad Farooq <am...@farooqlab.net> wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I am running Gromacs 5.0-beta on a remote workstation (next door) from my > PC. The two machines are networked via 1-Gigabit PCI-E ethernet cards (on > each machine) and a CAT-6 ethernet cable. > > My question is: > Would my MD simulations benefit in terms of speed if I were to use > 10-Gigabit PCI-E ethernet cards (they are damn expensive)? Is it worth my > dime and time? How much would I gain in terms of speed? Halve the run time? > Or even better? > > Thank you for any suggestions that you may have. > > Amjad Farooq > -- > Gromacs Users mailing list > > * Please search the archive at > http://www.gromacs.org/Support/Mailing_Lists/GMX-Users_List before posting! > > * Can't post? Read http://www.gromacs.org/Support/Mailing_Lists > > * For (un)subscribe requests visit > https://maillist.sys.kth.se/mailman/listinfo/gromacs.org_gmx-users or send a > mail to gmx-users-requ...@gromacs.org. -- Gromacs Users mailing list * Please search the archive at http://www.gromacs.org/Support/Mailing_Lists/GMX-Users_List before posting! * Can't post? Read http://www.gromacs.org/Support/Mailing_Lists * For (un)subscribe requests visit https://maillist.sys.kth.se/mailman/listinfo/gromacs.org_gmx-users or send a mail to gmx-users-requ...@gromacs.org.
