I am happy to say that I am getting an 8-fold increase in simulation speeds for $200.


An additional question: normally, how many simulations (separate mdruns on separate CPU cores) can be performed simultaneously on a single GPU? Say, for 20-40K particle sized simulations.

The coolers are not even spinning during a single test (mdrun -ntomp 4), and I get massive acceleration. They aren't broken, the card is just cool (small system, ~3K particles). 


Thanks,


Alex



>




>

Ah, ok, so you can get a 6-pin from the PSU and another from a converted molex connector. That should be just fine, especially as the card should will not pull more than ~155W (under heavy graphics load) based on the Tomshardware review* and you are providing 225W max.



*http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/evga-super-super-clocked-gtx-960,4063-3.html




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On Tue, Jun 30, 2015 at 7:31 PM, Alex <nedoma...@gmail.com> wrote:


Well, I don't have one like this. What I have instead is this:


1. A single 6-pin directly from the PSU.

2. A single molex to 6-pin (my PSU does provide one molex).

3. Two 6-pins to a single 8-pin converter going to the card.


In other words, I can populate both 6-pins on the 6-8 converter, just not sure about the pinouts in this case.


Not good?


Alex



>

What I meant is this: http://goo.gl/8o1B5P


That is 2x molex -> 8pin PCI-E. A single molex may not be enouhg.



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On Tue, Jun 30, 2015 at 7:10 PM, Alex <nedoma...@gmail.com> wrote:


It is a 4-core CPU, single GPU box, so I doubt I will be running more

than one at a time. We will very likely get a different PSU, unless...

I do have a molex to 6 pin concerter sitting on this very desk. Do you

think it will satisfy the card? I just don't know how much a single

molex line delivers. If you feel this should work, off to installing

everything I go.


Thanks a bunch,

Alex


SP> First of all, unless you run multiple independent simulations on the same

SP> GPU, GROMACS runs alone will never get anywhere near the peak power

SP> consumption of the GPU.


SP> The good news is that NVIDIA has gained some sanity and stopped blocking

SP> GeForce GPU info in nvidia-smi - although only for newer cars, but it does

SP> work with the 960 if you use a 352.xx driver:

SP> +------------------------------------------------------+


SP> | NVIDIA-SMI 352.21     Driver Version: 352.21         |


SP> |-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+

SP> | GPU  Name        Persistence-M| Bus-Id        Disp.A | Volatile Uncorr.

SP> ECC |

SP> | Fan  Temp  Perf  Pwr:Usage/Cap|         Memory-Usage | GPU-Util Compute

SP> M. |

SP> |===============================+======================+======================|

SP> |   0  GeForce GTX 960     Off  | 0000:01:00.0      On |

SP>  N/A |

SP> |  8%   45C    P5    15W / 130W |   1168MiB /  2044MiB |     31%

SP>  Default |

SP> +-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+



SP> A single 6-pin can deliver 75W, an 8-pin 150W, so in your case, the hard

SP> limits of what your card can pull is 75W from the PCI-E slow + 150W from

SP> the cable = 225 W. With a single 6-pin cable you'll only get ~150W max.

SP> That can be OK if your card does not pull more power (e.g. the above

SP> non-overclocked card would be just fine), but as your card is overclocked,

SP> I'm not sure it won't peak above 150W.


SP> You can try to get a molex -> PCI-E power cable converter.



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SP> On Mon, Jun 29, 2015 at 9:56 PM, Alex <nedoma...@gmail.com> wrote:


>> Hi all,

>>

>> I have a bit of a gromacs-unrelated question here, but I think this is a

>> better place to ask it than, say, a gaming forum. The Nvidia GTX 960 card

>> we got here came with an 8-pin AUX connector on the card side, which

>> interfaces _two_ 6-pin connectors to the PSU. It is a factory superclocked

>> card. My 525W PSU can only populate _one_ of those 6-pin connectors. The

>> EVGA website states that I need at least 400W PSU, while I have 525.

>>

>> At the same time, I have a dedicated high-power PCI-e slot, which on the

>> motherboard says "75W PCI-e". Do I need a different PSU to populate the AUX

>> power connector completely? Are these runs equivalent to drawing max power

>> during gaming?

>>

>> Thanks!

>>

>> Alex

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