Re: [AMBER] Sufficient CPU cores/GPU ratio ?

From: Gould, Ian R <i.gould.imperial.ac.uk>
Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2011 18:04:32 +0000

Hi All

I have tried to run 4 GPU's in a single CPU configuration "home brew" and
would not repeat the experiment.
I have the really huge Lian tower case with a 1500W power supply, intel
970 on a gigabyte m/b which has 4 x PCI 16x slots.
Whilst it did work there were lots of issues on GTX 580's with the
infamous losing of output etc.
The biggest issue IMHO was the temperature of the cards, we are talking
too hot to touch.
I still use the system but with only 3 580's in it and they all function
fine with no issues. As does the card that got pulled from the system.

Cheers
Ian

Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will
forgive us everything, even our intellects.
Oscar Wilde,
-- 
Dr Ian R Gould
Reader in Computational Chemical Biology
Department of Chemistry
Imperial College London
Exhibition Road
London
SW7 2AY
E-mail i.gould.imperial.ac.uk
http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/people/i.gould
Tel +44 (0)207 594 5809
On 13/09/2011 18:25, "Ross Walker" <ross.rosswalker.co.uk> wrote:
>> first of all thanks a lot for your complex answer !
>> In fact I assume mainly independent single GPU jobs. So if I understood
>> well, in such case there should not be problem considering below
>> mentioned
>> motherboard/CPU/4xGPU. Am I right ?
>
>For single GPU runs (i.e. 4 independent jobs) then things should be fine
>assuming the I/O can keep up etc. The caveat with that is that I have not
>actually tried 4 GPUs in a single socket machine with a 4 core GPU so am
>speaking from a theoretical standpoint here given how the AMBER GPU code
>works. Someone else who is running such a system might want to chime in
>with
>some specific performance numbers if they have them.
>
>All the best
>Ross
>
>/\
>\/
>|\oss Walker
>
>---------------------------------------------------------
>|             Assistant Research Professor              |
>|            San Diego Supercomputer Center             |
>|             Adjunct Assistant Professor               |
>|         Dept. of Chemistry and Biochemistry           |
>|          University of California San Diego           |
>|                     NVIDIA Fellow                     |
>| http://www.rosswalker.co.uk | http://www.wmd-lab.org/ |
>| Tel: +1 858 822 0854 | EMail:- ross.rosswalker.co.uk  |
>---------------------------------------------------------
>
>Note: Electronic Mail is not secure, has no guarantee of delivery, may not
>be read every day, and should not be used for urgent or sensitive issues.
> 
>
>
>
>
>
>_______________________________________________
>AMBER mailing list
>AMBER.ambermd.org
>http://lists.ambermd.org/mailman/listinfo/amber
_______________________________________________
AMBER mailing list
AMBER.ambermd.org
http://lists.ambermd.org/mailman/listinfo/amber
Received on Tue Sep 13 2011 - 11:30:02 PDT
Custom Search