On Sat, Apr 27, 2013, M. L. Dodson wrote:
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> I don't know how widespread openmp support is among operating systems likely
> to be used for AmberTools installs, but if it is near universal, my opinion
> is that -openmp installs should be the default, not serial installs. This is
> because almost all modern CPUs are multicore, hence fit well with openmp.
Our main concern in making this the default is/was that users might be using
multiple cores when they weren't expecting to, potentially violating local
queue requirements, etc. But I'm cc-ing this to amber-developers, to get
other opinions. You are correct that certain types of workstation jobs would
indeed be faster if users routinely made us of the openmp capabilties.
...thanks...dac
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Received on Sun Apr 28 2013 - 04:30:03 PDT
