Thanks for the feedback Ross and Carlos, I'll compile just the PMEMD
component then. And thanks for the link to the SDSC page :-)
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From: owner-amber.scripps.edu [mailto:owner-amber.scripps.edu] On Behalf
Of Ross Walker
Sent: Friday, April 06, 2007 16:24
To: amber.scripps.edu
Subject: RE: AMBER: Blue Gene, compile Amber9?
Dear Mike,
There is little point trying to run the rest of Amber on Blue Gene. The
scaling of sander is not sufficient to be efficient on Blue Gene and the
memory requirements will likely stop you running any decent size
systems.
PMEMD scales much better than sander and requires less memory. The
memory usage also goes down with the cpu count making it more suitable
for Blue Gene. Note PMEMD 9 supports both PME simulations and implicit
solvent GB simulations.
I attach the config.h I used to build pmemd 9 on SDSC's Blue Gene. Try
the one on the Amber website first though since this may have been
optimized by Bob Duke and give better performance. Benchmarks and job
submission scripts are here: http://coffee.sdsc.edu/rcw/amber_sdsc/
Note: Blue Gene is not a machine that was actively targetted by the
Amber developers during the Amber 9 development and so the code has not
had any specific optimizations for Blue Gene. Amber 10's PMEMD may
contain some Blue Gene tweaks that will improve the performance but this
won't be released until next year. Bob Duke may be able to comment more.
All the best
Ross
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From: owner-amber.scripps.edu [mailto:owner-amber.scripps.edu]
On Behalf Of Mike Hanby
Sent: Friday, April 06, 2007 10:23
To: amber.scripps.edu
Subject: AMBER: Blue Gene, compile Amber9?
Howdy,
Has anyone compiled Amber9 for use on an IBM Blue Gene/L (bgl)
system that wouldn't mind sharing the steps they used to cross compile
the code using the blrts_xl compilers?
I found one section on the Amber site that provides a config.h
file for compiling pmemd but nothing to do with the rest of Amber.
Thanks, Mike
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