[gmx-users] Performance of NVIDIA GTX980 in PCI-e 3.0 x8 or x16 slots ?

2015-06-11 Thread David McGiven
Dear Gromacs Users, We're finally buying some Intel E52650 servers + NVIDIA GTX980 cards. However, there's some servers that come with only PCI-e 3.0 x8 slots and others with x16 slots. Do you think this is relevant for gromacs performance ? And if so, how much relevant ? Thanks in advance.

Re: [gmx-users] Performance of NVIDIA GTX980 in PCI-e 3.0 x8 or x16 slots ?

2015-06-11 Thread David McGiven
Hey Mirco, Your 1-3% claim is based on the webpage you linked ? Is it reliable to compare GPU performances for gromacs with those of 3D videogames ? Thanks! 2015-06-11 13:21 GMT+02:00 Mirco Wahab mirco.wa...@chemie.tu-freiberg.de: On 11.06.2015 13:08, David McGiven wrote: We're finally

[gmx-users] GMX 5.0 compilation across different platforms

2015-02-27 Thread David McGiven
Dear All, I would like to statically compile GROMACS 5 in an Intel Xeon X3430 machine with gcc4.7 (cluster front node) BUT run it on an Intel Xeon E5-2650V2 machine (cluster compute node). Would that be possible ? And if so, how should I do it ? Haven't found it on the Installation_Instructions

Re: [gmx-users] NVIDIA GTX cards in Rackable servers, how do you do it ?

2015-02-24 Thread David McGiven
cores in use to see how Gromacs behaves with these processors (unless someone has done these tests, and can confirm that Gromacs has no issues with 16 or 18 core cpu's). Harry On Feb 24, 2015, at 1:32 PM, David McGiven wrote: Hi Szilard, Thank you very much for your great advice. 2015-02

Re: [gmx-users] NVIDIA GTX cards in Rackable servers, how do you do it ?

2015-02-24 Thread David McGiven
Hi Szilard, Thank you very much for your great advice. 2015-02-20 19:03 GMT+01:00 Szilárd Páll pall.szil...@gmail.com: On Fri, Feb 20, 2015 at 2:17 PM, David McGiven davidmcgiv...@gmail.com wrote: Dear Gromacs users and developers, We are thinking about buying a new cluster of ten

Re: [gmx-users] NVIDIA GTX cards in Rackable servers, how do you do it ?

2015-02-24 Thread David McGiven
2015-02-24 15:46 GMT+01:00 Szilárd Páll pall.szil...@gmail.com: Perhaps he has seen some real results that do not show issues at 16 or 18 cores/socket, in which case they would be advantageous, if one can afford them. I am only going on what the manager of our cluster mentioned to me in

Re: [gmx-users] Cluster recommendations

2015-02-20 Thread David McGiven
Hi Carsten, Sorry I just saw your message today. Thank you very much for the details. Cheers 2015-02-02 14:11 GMT+01:00 Carsten Kutzner ckut...@gwdg.de: Hi David, On 22 Jan 2015, at 18:01, David McGiven davidmcgiv...@gmail.com wrote: Hey Karsten, Just another question. What do you

[gmx-users] NVIDIA GTX cards in Rackable servers, how do you do it ?

2015-02-20 Thread David McGiven
Dear Gromacs users and developers, We are thinking about buying a new cluster of ten or twelve 1U/2U machines with 2 Intel Xeon CPU's 8-12 cores each. Some of the 2600v2 or v3 series. Not yet clear the details, we'll see. I've been told in this list that NVIDIA GTX offer the best

Re: [gmx-users] Cluster recommendations

2015-01-22 Thread David McGiven
an inteligent cluster purchase. Thanks again. Best, D 2015-01-16 14:46 GMT+01:00 Carsten Kutzner ckut...@gwdg.de: Hi David, On 16 Jan 2015, at 12:28, David McGiven davidmcgiv...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Carsten, Thanks for your answer. 2015-01-16 11:11 GMT+01:00 Carsten Kutzner ckut

Re: [gmx-users] Cluster recommendations

2015-01-22 Thread David McGiven
Sorry where it says between two gromacs runs I must have said three gromacs runs. One for each combination of cpu/gpu. 2015-01-22 18:01 GMT+01:00 David McGiven davidmcgiv...@gmail.com: Hey Karsten, Just another question. What do you think will be the performance difference between two

Re: [gmx-users] Cluster recommendations

2015-01-20 Thread David McGiven
Thank you very much Karsten. 2015-01-16 14:46 GMT+01:00 Carsten Kutzner ckut...@gwdg.de: Hi David, On 16 Jan 2015, at 12:28, David McGiven davidmcgiv...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Carsten, Thanks for your answer. 2015-01-16 11:11 GMT+01:00 Carsten Kutzner ckut...@gwdg.de: Hi David

Re: [gmx-users] Cluster recommendations

2015-01-16 Thread David McGiven
Regards, D Best, Carsten On 15 Jan 2015, at 17:35, David McGiven davidmcgiv...@gmail.com wrote: Dear Gromacs Users, We’ve got some funding to build a new cluster. It’s going to be used mainly for gromacs simulations (80% of the time). We run molecular dynamics simulations

[gmx-users] Cluster recommendations

2015-01-15 Thread David McGiven
Dear Gromacs Users, We’ve got some funding to build a new cluster. It’s going to be used mainly for gromacs simulations (80% of the time). We run molecular dynamics simulations of transmembrane proteins inside a POPC lipid bilayer. In a typical system we have ~10 atoms, from which almost 1/3

Re: [gmx-users] Gromacs 5.0 compilation slower than 4.6.5. What wentwrong ?

2014-09-09 Thread David McGiven
, at 15:39, David McGiven davidmcgiv...@gmail.com wrote: What is even more strange is that I tried with 10 pme nodes (mdrun -ntmpi 48 -v -c TEST_md.gro -npme 16), got a 15,8% performance loss and ns/day are very similar : 33 ns/day D. 2014-09-05 14

[gmx-users] Gromacs 5.0 compilation slower than 4.6.5. What went wrong ?

2014-09-05 Thread David McGiven
Dear Gromacs users, I just compiled gromacs 5.0 with the same compiler (gcc 4.7.2), same OS (RHEL 6) same configuration options and basically everything than my previous gromacs 4.6.5 compilation and when doing one of our typical simulations, I get worst performance. 4.6.5 does 45 ns/day 5.0

Re: [gmx-users] Gromacs 5.0 compilation slower than 4.6.5. What went wrong ?

2014-09-05 Thread David McGiven
lines you used to invoke mdrun as well as the log files of the runs you are comparing. Cheers, -- Szilárd On Fri, Sep 5, 2014 at 12:10 PM, David McGiven davidmcgiv...@gmail.com wrote: Dear Gromacs users, I just compiled gromacs 5.0 with the same compiler (gcc 4.7.2), same OS (RHEL 6

Re: [gmx-users] Gromacs 5.0 compilation slower than 4.6.5. What went wrong ?

2014-09-05 Thread David McGiven
and performance measurements. The list does not accept attachments, please upload it somewhere (dropbox, pastebin, etc.) and post a link. Cheers, -- Szilárd On Fri, Sep 5, 2014 at 12:37 PM, David McGiven davidmcgiv...@gmail.com wrote: Command line in both cases is : 1st : grompp -f grompp.mdp

Re: [gmx-users] Gromacs 5.0 compilation slower than 4.6.5. What went wrong ?

2014-09-05 Thread David McGiven
setting the -npme flag as 12. Regards, Abhishek Acharya On Fri, Sep 5, 2014 at 4:43 PM, David McGiven davidmcgiv...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks Szilard, here it goes! : 4.6.5 : http://pastebin.com/nqBn3FKs 5.0 : http://pastebin.com/kR4ntHtK 2014-09-05 12:47 GMT+02:00 Szilárd Páll

Re: [gmx-users] Gromacs 5.0 compilation slower than 4.6.5. What went wrong ?

2014-09-05 Thread David McGiven
What is even more strange is that I tried with 10 pme nodes (mdrun -ntmpi 48 -v -c TEST_md.gro -npme 16), got a 15,8% performance loss and ns/day are very similar : 33 ns/day D. 2014-09-05 14:54 GMT+02:00 David McGiven davidmcgiv...@gmail.com: Hi Abhi, Yes I noticed that imbalance but I