Re: [AMBER] performance of pmed.cuda.MPI

From: Ross Walker <ross.rosswalker.co.uk>
Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2012 10:51:01 -0700

>FWIW - I already have a small cluster of i7's for QM, so it's helpful to
>know that I can just drop in GPU's to run MD. The
>first machines I received as donations were intel, so I have just built
>new
>intel machines going forward to maintain consistency.

Yes you can do this assuming that the boxes have adequate cooling and more
importantly the power supplies are beefy enough. You may need to replace
the power supplies but as long as they are ATX cases (rather than custom
Dell junk, or 1U cases etc) it should be easy.

All the best
Ross

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