Re: [AMBER] Regarding NVIDIA Graphics Card

From: Hirdesh Kumar <hirdesh.iitd.gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2011 14:02:51 +0530

Hi Ross,
Thanks for your suggestion.

Hirdesh

On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 6:35 AM, Ross Walker <ross.rosswalker.co.uk> wrote:

> Hi Hirdesh,
>
> > *2 GB PCle x 16 NVIDIA QUADRO FX 4000 *
> >
> > But I am afraid whether I can use it for high performance calculation as
> it
> > is mentioned in amber site as well that the amber compatibility is with
> > Tesla series only. I am eager to know whether I can go for FX 4000 card
> or
> > restrict myself to *NVIDIA c2070*. Is there any plan to optimize AMBER
> for
> > FX 4000 series as well in future?
>
> AMBER will run on any NVIDIA GPU that supports Hardware Revision 1.3 or
> later. I.e. hardware double precision. Not sure where the FX4000 fits on
> this but I think it should probably work fine. We have had some issues with
> reliability of GeForce cards but have never properly tested the quadro
> cards, mainly because they cost so much that you could just get a GeForce
> and a Tesla instead in most cases. So I think you should just try it and
> report how it goes. Running the deviceQuery command from the CUDA SDK will
> tell you the hardware revision.
>
> All the best
> Ross
>
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