David,
A couple of points of clarification.
First, what time do I use to compute seconds per step. Do I use the
total runtime(i.e., time pmemd....) or some subset of the total time?
At the end of the output file, I see a breakdown of time spent per
component. Do I use one of these?
Finally, does the value of 86.4 only apply to the "jac" benchmark, or is
this a generic value? I saw on the Amber 8 benchmarks page that the
value for the "factor_ix" benchmark is 129.6, not 86.4.
Thanks,
-craig
David A. Case wrote:
> On Thu, May 06, 2004, Craig TOEPFER wrote:
>
>>On the Amber website, there are some benchmark results from various
>>machines/compilers. The results are listed as "ps per day". I am not
>>sure how to compute this value from the output produced by these set of
>>benchmarks that are included in the Amber8 distribution. Can you help
>>me or point me in the right direction.
>
>
> The fourth "Note" at the top of the benchmark page gives the conversion:
>
> The value of ps per day = 86.4/(seconds per step), for a time step of 1 fs.
> Double this value if you plan to use 2 fs time steps.
>
> The "jac" benchmark uses a 1 fs time step, for example, and it is 1000 steps
> long. So you figure out your seconds per step, and use the above equation.
>
> ..good luck...dac
>
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